Savannah in the Time of Peter Tondee: The Road to Revolution in Colonial Georgia

Savannah, a Southern city quietly blooming in the shadow of its more famous sister city Charleston, has recently captured its own share of the limelight. With the publication of best-selling books, Forest Gump and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, both of which were set it Savannah, tourism is at an all-time high, business is booming, and everyone wants to know more about this gem of a town. The secret is out and with it comes this page-turning narrative about the founding of a great city, and an orphan boy who would become a central character in the revolutionary effort in Georgia -- Peter Tondee. Tondee's life provides the ideal vehicle for a journey through Savannah in the eighteenth century and a rare view of the social fabric of the working class of the time.