Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder
By Unknown Author.
Description
Long encrusted in myth and legend, the planter aristocracy of the ante-bellum South has been depicted by a host of historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers. Each has presented an interpretation of his or her own choosing. Now Carol Bleser brings us a remarkable set of diaries that allows one prominent planter and slaveholder to speak as himself and for himself. It affords a look at a vanished era unparalleled in its intimacy and candor. James Henry Hammond, virtually a character out of a Faulkner novel, was a poor boy, who married into wealth and...
ISBN(s)
0195053087, 9780195053081
