Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom

McFeely, William S.

ISBN 10: 039303643X / ISBN 13: 9780393036435

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994

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Title: Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

Historian William McFeely, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1982 for "Grant: A Biography" explores America's history of slavery and reconstruction by recreating the rich but troubled past of the people of Sapelo, a low-lying barrier island off the coast of Georgia. The 67 people living there are all descendants of slaves who once worked its huge cotton plantation, slaves who made the brutal Middle Passage from Africa. Based on family records and interviews with the inhabitants, this text traces the lives of their forebears: among them Bilali, the Muslim slave who left a manuscript written in Arabic when he died; his daughters and grandchildren who were forcibly evacuated by the plantation owner and marched into the interior of Georgia when the Union Navy threatened the coast during the Civil War; and March Carter and James Lemon, who ran away to join the Union army and fight for freedom.

About the Author:

William S. McFeely is Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen; Grant: A Biography, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Parkman Prize; Frederick Douglass, which received the Lincoln Prize; Sapelo’s People: A Long Walk into Freedom; and Proximity to Death.