Historians have dismissed the ten years it took to ready the new capital as nothing more than man's inability to tame a a swamp. In a brilliant narrative Bob Arnebeck shows how with slave axe-men, lawyers' writs, and speculators' greed a hilly, well wooded paradise was turned into a land of stumps ruts, shacks, and isolated mansions. The stories of the slaves and workers are a last told.
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Historians have dismissed the ten years it took to ready the new capital as nothing more than man's inability to tame a a swamp. In a brilliant narrative Bob Arnebeck shows how with slave axe-men, lawyers' writs, and speculators' greed a hilly, well wooded paradise was turned into a land of stumps ruts, shacks, and isolated mansions. The stories of the slaves and workers are a last told.
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