Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 (New Directions in Southern History)
""Makes a genuine contribution to our understanding of antebellum Georgia."--Timothy J. Lockley, author of Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record" -- Timothy Lockley""Colonial Georgia has long been known as 'the debatable land' contested by the British and Spanish crowns. That imperial conflict, as Watson Jennison shows, was the tip of the iceberg. In a sweeping account, Jennison describes the struggle between Low Country planters, Revolutionary republicans, black maroons, free people of color, and Native Americans to control the region. Georgia's violent and tumultuous first century culminated in the creation of a white man's republic. Readers of this excellent book will know that the outcome was neither uncontested nor inevitable."--Claudio Saunt, author of Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family" --""Watson Jennison's thoughtful synthesis of social, intellectual, and political history will stand for some time to come as the best one-volume account we have of slavery and racism in Georgia. This is a book that students and scholars of slavery, the South, and race in American history need to read and contend with."-- Anthony E. Kaye, author of Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South" --""Finesses Georgia's racial history to show that divides were not inevitable and that the call for the democratazation of white society helped create a bifurcated society by the antebellum era.... Jennison improves our understanding of how these divides came to be."--Choice" --""This book provides interesting insight into the history of Georgia and demands a place on any early Americna reading list." -- Sarah Batterson, Southern Historian" --""This book is a welcomed addition to the literature on race and slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." -- Daina Ramey Berry, The Journal of American History" --