James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery
- ISBN-10
- 0807112828
- ISBN-13
- 9780807112823
- Category
- Slaveholders
- Pages
- 407
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Author
- Drew Gilpin Faust
Description
"In this finely drawn and gracefully written biography ... Faust has done much more than provide us with a badly needed full-length study of a key political figure and proslavery ideologue in antebellum South Carolina.
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