John Horry Dent

Taken from Dent's journals, this book explores the world of this wealthy planter and landholder, who at one time owned five plantations in Barbour County, Alabama. In 1837, when he came, to the newly opened Alabama frontier with his young wife and her 35 slaves, he had the building of an agrarian dynasty in mind, but his ambition was thwarted by the Civil War.