James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery

Contents and Illustrations

Contents Acknowledgments xvii Abbreviations xix Introduction i Part I To Be Great Among Men Chapter i A Father's Pride and Ornament 7 Chapter 2 Ways and Means 23 Chapter 3 We Are with the South 39 Chapter 4 A Means of Extrication 58 Part // My Little Kingdom: The World of the Plantation Chapter 5 In Search of Despotic Sway: Hammond as a Master of Slaves 69 Chapter 6 Our Farms Will Be Our Factories: The Planter as Agricultural Entrepreneur 105 Part UJ The Hazards of Power Chapter 7 A More Elevated Ambition 137 ChapterS Anticipations of Greatness 156 Chapter 9 Magnificent Intentions 165 Chapter 10 A Slaveowner in a Free Society 186 Contents Chapter 11 The Sound of the Trumpet 204 Chapter 12 The Crisis of My Fate 224 Part IV In a Different Sphere Chapter 13 A More Virtuous Energy: Hammond and the Works of Mind 257 Chapter 14 To Enlighten and Warn the South 284 Part V The Irony of Success Chapter 15 A Predominant Family of Our Name 307 Chapter 16 The Violation of Order 331 Chapter 17 The Time to Die 360 Epilogue 380 Appendix: Charts and Tables 383 Bibliographical Essay 393 Index 399 xiv Illustrations James Henry Hammond frontispiece Elisha Hammond 25 Francis W. Pickens 48 Map of Hammond's South Carolina 68 Slave House 80 Edmund Ruffin 127 Franklin H. Elmore 150 John C. Calhoun 173 William Gilmore Simms 227 Governor James Henry Hammond 237 Wade Hampton II 244 Nathaniel Beverley Tucker 268 Marcus Claudius Marcellus Hammond 309 John Fox Hammond 310 Catherine Fox Spann Hammond 312 Cattie Hammond 329 Redcliffe 337 Senator James Henry Hammond 341 Harry Hammond 366 This page intentionally left blank ...