Seas of gold, seas of cotton : Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island

Keber, Martha L. 1949- (Author).

Summary: "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."--Jacket.

Item details

ISBN: 0820323608
ISBN: 9780820323602
Physical Description: print
xiii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher: Athens ; London : University of Georgia Press, ©2002.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: TO THE SEA -- Chapter 1. Crossing the Line 9 -- Chapter 2. War and Shipwreck 36 -- Chapter 3. The Riches of Salomon 70 --TO THE MANOR -- Chapter 4. A "Bourgeois Noble" 115 -- Chapter 5. "National Vertigo" 139 --TO THE ISLANDS -- Chapter 6. The Sapelo Bubble 169 -- Chapter 7. Seas of Cotton 192 -- Chapter 8. Ties That Bind 220 -- Chapter 9. Denouement 234.

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