| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King. By John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xvi, 335 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8203-2626-7.)
The Legend in this title signals that many false notions still circulate about Horace King. Extensive and meticulous research by John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. in numerous sources (newspapers, oral histories, local archives, and the letters of King's business associates) aims to correct such inaccuracies. Lupold and French, whose project was funded and inspired by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission, tell how King left his mark on that river valley with his construction projects and made a fine reputation for himself.	1
We learn that King was born a slave to a mulatto father and Native American mother in 1807. In 1830, with his mother and siblings, he was sold to John Godwin, a Georgia builder, an unusual master who allowed his slaves to learn to read and write. Some assert that King learned his skills as a builder at Oberlin College. Highly unlikely, the authors say, because Oberlin then did not teach engineering. King learned carpentry and expanded his skills under Godwin's tutelage.	. . .

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