Seas of gold, seas of cotton
Subtitle: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island
By: Martha L. Keber.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: DuBignon, Christophe Poulain, 1739-1825.; Plantation owners -- Georgia -- Jekyll Island -- Biography.; Merchants -- Georgia -- Jekyll Island -- Biography.; Merchants -- France -- Biography.; Nobility -- France -- Biography.; Seafaring life -- History -- 18th century.; Commerce -- History -- 18th century.; Jekyll Island (Ga.) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.; Jekyll Island (Ga.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.; Jekyll Island (Ga.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739-1825) was the son of an impoverished Breton aristocrat. Breaking social convention to engage in trade, he began his long career first as a cabin boy in the navy of the French India Company and later as a sea captain and privateer.

After retiring from the sea, DuBignon lived in France as a "bourgeois noble" with income from land, moneylending, and manufacturing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: TO THE SEA; title: Chapter 1. Crossing the Line 9; title: Chapter 2. War and Shipwreck 36; title: Chapter 3. The Riches of Salomon 70; title: TO THE MANOR; title: Chapter 4. A "Bourgeois Noble" 115; title: Chapter 5. "National Vertigo" 139; title: TO THE ISLANDS; title: Chapter 6. The Sapelo Bubble 169; title: Chapter 7. Seas of Cotton 192; title: Chapter 8. Ties That Bind 220; title: Chapter 9. Denouement 234.