Download or read book An Oration Delivered Before the Two Societies of the South Carolina College on the Fourth of December 1849 written by James Henry Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Henry Hammond and the Old South written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1985-07-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Necessity of Popular Enlightenment to the Honor and Welfare of the State written by Henry Laurens Pinckney and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thinking Confederates written by Dan R. Frost and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon James H Hammond written by James Henry Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Shifting Grounds written by Paul Quigley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'
Download or read book The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Oration Delivered Before the Euphradian and Clariosophic Societies of the South Carolina College written by Whitefoord Smith and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Papers of John C Calhoun written by John Caldwell Calhoun and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 2-9: Edited by W. Edwin Hemphill; v. 10: Edited by Clyde N. Wilson and W. Edwin Hemphill; v. 11-18, 20-22: Edited by Clyde N. Wilson; v. 23-27 edited by Clyde N. Wilson and Shirley Bright CookVols. 10-15, 22: Published by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History and the South Caroliniana Society; v. 23-28 published by the University of South Carolina Press Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Download or read book Beverley Tucker written by Robert J. Brugger and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gospel of Disunion written by Mitchell Snay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism. In Gospel of Disunion Mitchell Snay examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation of the Confederacy in 1861, Snay shows how religion worked as an active agent in translating the sectional conflict into a struggle of the highest moral significance. At the same time, the slavery controversy sectionalized southern religion, creating separate institutions and driving theology further toward orthodoxy. By establishing a biblical sanction for slavery, developing a slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, and demonstrating the viability of separation from the North through the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s, religion reinforced central elements in southern political culture and contributed to a moral consensus that made secession possible.
Download or read book Southern Literary Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letters Collected and Edited by Mary C Simms Oliphant written by William Gilmore Simms and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
