Sapelo's People

In this moving and original work William S. McFeely one of this country''s most distinguished historians retells the historyand enters into the current-day livesof the people who inhabit Sapelo''s Island off the coast of Georgia descendants of slaves who once worked its huge cotton plantations. It is at once a richly detailed work of historical reconstruction a sensitive portrait of the lives of black Americans in this particular place and in our own time and a moving meditation on race by a writer who has made its painful dilemmas his life''s work as a historian.