James Henry Hammond and the Old South: a design for mastery

430 Pages·2010·21.247 MB·English

by  Hammond, James Henry;Faust, Drew Gilpin

Southern Biography Series
William }. Cooper, jr., Editor
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James Henry Hammond and the Old South
Courtesy of rhe South Carolmiana Library
James Henry Hammond as painted by William Scarborough in 1850.
JAMES HENRY HAMMOND
and the
OLD SOUTH
A Design for Mastery
Drew Gilpin Faust
Louisiana State University Press
Baton Rouge
Published by Louisiana State University Press
Copyright © 1982 by Louisiana State University Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Designer: Patricia Douglas Crowder
Typeface: Linotron Goudy
Typesetter: G&S Typesetters, Inc.
Some of the material in Chapter 5 was originally published in the Journal of Social History, Vol. XIV.
A version of Chapter 10 appeared in the South Carolina Historical Magazine, LXXXI (1980), 189—206.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Faust, Drew Gilpin
James Henry Hammond and the Old South.
(Southern biography series)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
i. Hammond, James Henry, 1807—1864. 2. Slavery
— Southern States. 3. South Carolina—Politics
and government— I 775—1865. 4. Slaveholders — South
Carolina—Biography. I. Title. II. Series.
F273.H25F38 1982 975.7'o3'o924 [B] 82-8939
ISBN 978-0-8071-1248-9 (paper) AACR2
LOUISIANA PAPERBACK EDITION, 1985
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee
on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. &)
Winner of the Jules F. Landry Award for 1982
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