The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower (PDF)
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<p>In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina, arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at Champneys. Nearby was Butler’s Island, made famous by...
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<p>In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina, arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at Champneys. Nearby was Butler’s Island, made famous by Fanny Kemble Butler in her antebellum <i>Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation</i>. Legare also served as the clerk of the city of Darien during the first three decades of the twentieth century, maintaining detailed records of public business and documenting local commercial and civic affairs.</p><p>Almost to the day of his death in 1932, Legare kept a journal containing his observations and commentary on the development of Darien as a center for timber exports and the gradual decline of the rice industry. South Carolina and Georgia led the world in rice production in the mid-nineteenth century, and Legare’s detailed accounts of planting and management provide one of the outstanding contemporary sources for what was becoming a vanishing way of life in tidewater Georgia.</p><p>Legare’s journals are a microcosmic history of Darien and its environs during a time that was perhaps the most compelling in the town’s history. The industrial development of Darien in the postbellum era was the essence of Henry Grady’s vision of the progressive New South, a factor not lost on Legare. He reflects on the difficulties associated with rice planting; Darien’s soaring, then plummeting, fortunes with yellow pine timber; prominent community members; and the development of local railroads. Legare records these developments against the larger backdrop of America, as his journal contains many observations on contemporary national events.</p><p>Buddy Sullivan has placed the <i>Journal</i> in context with an introduction and comprehensive endnotes identifying the people and events referred to by Legare. There is also considerable African American history in the volume, as reflected both in Legare’s writings and in the editor’s introduction and supplementary notes.</p>
Autoren-Porträt von Buddy Sullivan
BUDDY SULLIVAN was manager of the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve from 1993 to 2013 and is a native of McIntosh County in coastal Georgia. He is the author of twenty books about the history of Georgia and coastal Georgia, including the comprehensive <i>Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater</i> and <i>The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower</i> (Georgia). His recent books include <i>Georgia: A State History</i> and <i>“All Under Bank”: Roswell King, Jr. and Plantation Management in Tidewater Georgia</i>.
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- Autor: Buddy Sullivan
- 2012, 172 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Buddy Sullivan
- Verlag: University of Georgia Press
- ISBN-10: 0820343706
- ISBN-13: 9780820343709
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2012
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