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The Hammonds of Redcliffe
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James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) was born at Stoney Battery, South Carolina to Elisha (1774-1829) and Catherine Fox Spann Hammond (1785-1864). In 1831 he married Catherine Elizabeth Fitzsimons (1814-1… |
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Plain folk and gentry in a slave society
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J. William Harris |
In 1861, only about one-quarter of white southern families owned slaves, yet the vast majority of nonslave-owning whites followed southern planters into a long and bloody war to defend slavery. In do… |
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Slave and sister
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Sabra Waldfogel |
"Adelaide Mannheim and her slave Rachel share a shameful secret. Adelaide's father, a Jewish planter in Cass County, Georgia, is Rachel's father, too. Adelaide marries neighboring planter Henry Kalte… |
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A complicated legacy
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Robert H. Stucky |
If movies and books like Belle, Twelve Years a Slave, The Butler, The Help, A Time to Kill, and Amistad have moved you, you'll love A Complicated Legacy, a novel by Baltimore writer Robert H. Stucky … |
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South by southwest
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James David Miller |
"In exploring what planter mobility reveals about planter identity and culture, South by Southwest blends analysis of both public and private responses to emigration and in so doing illuminates the w… |
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The Highest Price for Passion
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Laurinda D. Brown |
"The Highest Price for Passion reflects one hundred years of the most volatile era to divide American soil, interspersed with the uncontrollable fervor from the most unlikeliest of sources -- when bo… |
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Strange Music
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Laura Fish |
'Once Strange Music grips you, you won't be able to put it down.' Independent In Laura Fish's ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett… |
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