by T. Reed Ferguson

Drawing upon original historical documents both in the United States and Scotland, T. Reed Ferguson has assembled a first-rate biography of John Couper (1758-1850), a St. Simons Island plantation owner famous for his humane treatment of slaves, his bold horticultural experiments, his lifelong civic service, and his far-reaching generosity. Ferguson's well-wrought narrative chronicles coastal Georgia life in the years between the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War and concludes with the decline of the Couper plantation, Cannon's Point, as a result of the Union occupation of Georgia.

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