Historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers alike have perpetuated myths and legends about the planter aristocracy of the antebellum South. Presenting this remarkable set of diaries which span the critical period between 1841 and 1864, Carol Bleser allows one prominent planter and slaveholder to speak as himself and for himself. An articulate intellectual active in politics as a congressman, U.S. senator, and South Carolina governor, James Henry Hammond became a leading spokesman for the ...
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Historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers alike have perpetuated myths and legends about the planter aristocracy of the antebellum South. Presenting this remarkable set of diaries which span the critical period between 1841 and 1864, Carol Bleser allows one prominent planter and slaveholder to speak as himself and for himself. An articulate intellectual active in politics as a congressman, U.S. senator, and South Carolina governor, James Henry Hammond became a leading spokesman for the Cotton Kingdom in the last years before the Civil War. The diaries illuminate not only the intimate details of his personal life but also the key personalities and political turbulence of the age leading up to the ultimate disaster of the Old South.
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