British artist Thomas Addison Richards painted River Plantation (1855-60) from sketches made in Georgia during his travels through the South in the 1840s. Oil on canvas (20 1/4" x 30").
River Plantation
uniquely situated among southern states on the eve of the Civil War (1861-65), played a vital part in the formation of the Confederacy. A geographic lynchpin that linked Atlantic seaboard and Deep South states, the "Empire State" was the second-largest state in area east of the Mississippi River (Virginia was larger until West Virginia broke away in 1861), and the second-largest Deep South state (only Texas was larger). In population, slave and free, Georgia was the largest in the Deep South. Both geographically and demographically, Georgia encompassed as much diversity as any other Confederate state, and these factors had an important impact on how the state experienced the war years and what it contributed to the Southern war effort.
Kai T. Ericson, born in Vienna in 1931, is considered by many
an authority on the catastrophic events and their social fallouts. This American
sociologist studied plethora of disasters, among them the disaster created by
the US nuclear testing. What Kai explains is that, unfortunately, this particular disaster
never had an ending.
Gandhi is considered the most influential person mainly because he was one of the main reasons for India's independence and also because he fought for equality almost certainly like Martin Luther king
