How Long to Read The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower

How Long Does it Take to Read The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower by John Girardeau Legare

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Description

In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina, arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at Champneys. Nearby was Butler's Island, made famous by Fanny Kemble Butler in her antebellum Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. Legare also served as the clerk of the city of Darien during the first three decades of the twentieth century, maintaining detailed records of public business and documenting local commercial and civic affairs. Almost to the day of his death in 1932, Legare kept a journal containing his observations and commentary on the development of Darien as a center for timber exports and the gradual decline of the rice industry. South Carolina and Georgia led the world in rice production in the mid-nineteenth century, and Legare's detailed accounts of planting and management provide one of the outstanding contemporary sources for what was becoming a vanishing way of life in tidewater Georgia. Legare's journals are a microcosmic history of Darien and its environs during a time that was perhaps the most compelling in the town's history. The industrial development of Darien in the postbellum era was the essence of Henry Grady's vision of the progressive New South, a factor not lost on Legare. He reflects on the difficulties associated with rice planting; Darien's soaring, then plummeting, fortunes with yellow pine timber; prominent community members; and the development of local railroads. Legare records these developments against the larger backdrop of America, as his journal contains many observations on contemporary national events. Buddy Sullivan has placed the Journal in context with an introduction and comprehensive endnotes identifying the people and events referred to by Legare. There is also considerable African American history in the volume, as reflected both in Legare's writings and in the editor's introduction and supplementary notes.

How long is The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower?

The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower by John Girardeau Legare is 172 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.

This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower aloud.

What Reading Level is The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower?

The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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