Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder

by James Henry Hammond

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053087
• ISBN13: 9780195053081
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"