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Overview
Jonathan Bryan (1708-88) rose from the obscurity of the southern frontier to become one of colonial Georgia's richest, most powerful men. Along the way he made such influential friends as George Whitefield and James Oglethorpe. Bryan's contemporaries, in terms of their large holdings of land and slaves, were markedly traditional and conservative.
As the author, Alan Gallay shows, Bryan was different. Paternalistic and relatively open minded, Bryan contemplated religious, social, political, and economic ideas that other planters refused to consider.
Of equal importance, he explored the geographic areas that lay beyond the reach and understanding of his contemporaries. Through the career of a remarkable individual--which spanned the founding of Georgia, the Revolution, and the birth of the new republic--Gallay chronicles the rise of the plantation slavery system in the colonial South.
Directions:
Answer the following questions on Gallay's book. Answer in your own words as much as possible. Please type all of the answers individually using bold text. Each question followed by the answer in bold print in Q & A format, FIRM
BOOK: Author - Alan Gallay, The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier (1989)
THE ASSIGNMENT
Q1) What is the main argument, the thesis, of the book? Summarize IN brief 1-2 paragraphs
Chapter 1 "The Southern Frontier"
Q1) Gallay describes the Southeast as a region of "great fluidity, what did this mean and how did it affect human culture in the region?
Q2) How did Joseph Bryan make his living?
Q3) How did Jonathan Bryan adapt to the frontier conditions of South Carolina to make his living?
Chapter 2 "Impassioned Disciples"
Q1 )How did Jonathan Bryan attempt to change slaveholding when he became an Evangelical Christian?
Q2) What was George Whitefield's relationship to Jonathan Bryan and the legalization of slavery in Georgia?
Q3) What does the author Gallay mean by "paternalism" and how did Jonathan Bryan embody it?
Chapter 3 "From One Frontier to Another"
Q1) When did Bryan decide to move to Georgia? Why did he go?
Q2) How did stronger colonial governments benefit slaveholders?
Chapter 4 "Land and Politics"
Q1) In what ways did Bryan obtain his land?
Q2) Why (see pg. 106) does Bryan ultimately turn against the British monarchy?
Chapter 5 "Politics, 1761-1773"
Q1) Why does Bryan join the protest movement against Parliament?
Q2)How did Bryan reach out to men who were of a different economic class?
Chapter 6 "Dreams of Empire"
Q1) Why do the Creeks give Bryan land?
Chapter 7 "The War and After, 1776-1788"
Q1) What positions did Bryan hold in the revolutionary government of Georgia?
Q2)Why was Jonathan Bryan successful?
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