Sapelo's people

William S. McFeely

Sapelo is a low-lying barrier island off the coast of Georgia, one of the few with its natural beauty unspoiled. Its sixty-seven people living there in Hog Hammock are descendants of slaves who once worked its huge cotton plantation. William S. McFeely, a distinguished historian who has written three books that probe America's racial problems in the nineteenth century, visited Sapelo and met its people. With deft sketches, he tells us of Glasco Bailey and his turkeys, of Matty Carter and her garden, of Allen Green making baskets that are a work of art. And of the long past of their families. McFeely had something more than a rich curiosity about the present to bring to Sapelo. He came with a profound knowledge of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; using a remarkable group of family records, he traced the lives of the Baileys' and Carters' and Greens' forebears. There is...

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