Berry, Stephen William
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Encyclopedia article about the Butler family of South Carolina and Georgia. The Butlers of South Carolina and Philadelphia owned extensive plantations in the Sea Islands of Georgia, where hundreds of slaves labored to grow the rice and cotton on which the family's wealth was based. The most prominent members of the family were the patriarch, Pierce Butler (1744-1822), who amassed the fortune; his grandson Pierce Mease Butler (1806-67); and the latter's wife, Fanny Kemble (1809-93), author of the influential antislavery book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (1863).
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- Butler, Pierce, 1744 1822
- Butler, Pierce, 1807 1867
- Civil War
- Civil War, 1861 1865
- Cotton
- Georgia
- Hampton Point Plantation
- History
- Islands
- Kemble, Fanny, 1809 1893
- Leigh, Frances Butler, 1838 1910
- Plantation Owners
- Plantations
- Rice
- Sea Islands
- Slave Trade
- Slaveowners
- Slaver
- Slavery
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