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| #3668113 in Books | University of South Carolina Press | 1997-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x1.03 x5.98l,1.61 | File type: PDF | 462 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating family history|By SusieQ|The true history of a Southern slaveholding family, pre- and post-Civil War, the heirs of the famous "Cotton is King" U.S.Senator, James Henry Hammond, which is told through their own letters, and the excellent interpretations of Carol Bleser.
The word, "slaveholding" may give you a shudder, but this family had its share of troubl||"[Bleser] adds much to [the letters'] intelligibility with her introductions to successive generations and by her brisk rattling of skeletons from family closets."--C. Vann Woodward, New York of Books
"Social history that reads like a novel."--Jea
Drawing on four generations of family correspondence --reflecting the hopes, fears, desires, frustrations, and failures of an American family touched by personal scandal-- this book presents the saga of the Hammonds of Redcliffe from before the Civil War to after the New Deal. Set in Redcliffe, the plantation home of the Hammonds, this sweeping collection of letters, many of them by women, recaptures a way of life that is gone forever as it provides fascinating insights ...
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