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Secret And Sacred The Diaries Of James Henry Hammond, A Southern  Slaveholder
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Secret And Sacred The Diaries Of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder Hardcover - 1988

by Hammond, James Henry; Edited By Carol Bleser

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New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. 0195053087 .
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  • Title Secret And Sacred The Diaries Of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder
  • Author Hammond, James Henry; Edited By Carol Bleser
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
  • Pages 380
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford
  • Date 1988
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 119853
  • ISBN 9780195053081 / 0195053087
  • Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.38 x 1.32 in (24.13 x 16.21 x 3.35 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Plantation life - South Carolina - History -, Slavery - South Carolina - History - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88004204
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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James Henry Hammond compared his life to that of the mythical Sisyphus, compelled to roll a stone to the top of a slope, the stone always escaping him near the top and rolling down again except, Hammond added melodramatically, that "the stone rolling back has always broken some limb of mine and utterly crushed some body connected with me."

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About the author

About the Editor:
Carol Bleser is the Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University. In 1981, she published The Hammonds of Redcliffe, an annotated collection of the Hammond family correspondence over four generation