Author: James Henry HammondPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
An Oration, Delivered Before the Two Societies of the South-Carolina College, on the Fourth of December, 1849
Author: James Henry HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Necessity of Popular Enlightenment to the Honor and Welfare of the State
Author: Henry Laurens PinckneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Thinking Confederates
Author: Dan R. FrostPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572331044
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"Dan Frost shows how, inspired by the idea of progress, these men set about transforming Southern higher education. Recognizing the north's superiority in industry and technology, they turned their own schools from a classical orientation to a new emphasis on science and engineering. These educators came to define the Southern idea of progress and passed it on to their students, thus helping to create and perpetuate an expectation for the arrival of the New South."--BOOK JACKET.
Institute Monograph
Author: Shifting Grounds
Author: Paul QuigleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199376476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The American Civil War brought with it a crisis of nationalism. This text reinterprets southern conceptions of allegiance, identity, and citizenship within the contexts of antebellum American national identity and the transatlantic 'Age of Nationalism.'
James Henry Hammond and the Old South
Author: Drew Gilpin FaustPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080715248X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman’s troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and an ardent defender of slavery and white supremacy, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and ambition provides a composite portrait of the civilization in which he flourished. A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust’s James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time. Of humble origins, Hammond set out to conquer his society, to make himself a leader and a spokesman for the Old South. Through marriage he acquired a large plantation and many slaves, and then through their coerced labor, shrewd management practices, and progressive farming techniques, he soon became one of the wealthiest men in South Carolina. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served as governor of his state. Evidence that he sexually abused four of his teenage nieces forced him to retreat for many years to his plantation, but eventually he returned to public view, winning a seat in the United States Senate that he resigned when South Carolina seceded from the Union. James Henry Hammond’s ambition was unquenchable. It consumed his life, directed almost his every move and ultimately, in its titanic calculation and rigidity, destroyed the man confined within it. Like Faulkner’s Thomas Sutpen, Faust suggests, Hammond had a “design,” a compulsion to direct every moment of his life toward self-aggrandizement and legitimation. Despite his sexual abuse of enslaved females and their children, like other plantation owners, Hammond envisioned himself as benevolent and paternal. He saw himself as the absolute master of his family and slaves, but neither his family, his slaves, nor even his own behavior was completely under his command. Hammond fervently wished to perfect and preserve what he envisioned as the southern way of life. But these goals were also beyond his control. At the time of his death it had become clear to him that his world, the world of the Old South, had ended.
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author: An Oration Delivered Before the Euphradian and Clariosophic Societies of the South Carolina College
Author: Whitefoord SmithPublisher:
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond
Author: James Henry HammondPublisher:
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Beverley Tucker
Author: Robert J. BruggerPublisher:
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description