Sapelos People A Long Walk Int

McFeely, William S.

ISBN 10: 0393313778 / ISBN 13: 9780393313772

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

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Synopsis:

In this moving and original work, William S. McFeely, one of this country's most distinguished historians, retells the history―and enters into the current-day lives―of the people who inhabit Sapelo's Island off the coast of Georgia, descendants of slaves who once worked its huge cotton plantations. It is at once a richly detailed work of historical reconstruction, a sensitive portrait of the lives of black Americans in this particular place and in our own time, and a moving meditation on race by a writer who has made its painful dilemmas his life's work as a historian.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sapelos People A Long Walk Int
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good