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

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments ANY INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS have helped me in my work on this book. The National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the University of Pennsylvania all provided financial support. The staffs of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress , the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Earl Gregg Swem Memorial Library of the College of William and Mary, the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library at Duke University, the Virginia Historical Society, the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, and the South Carolina Historical Society were unfailingly helpful. I am especially grateful to Les Inabinett, director of the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina and his staff for the many courtesies I was shown during my visits there. Fellow scholars of South Carolina Vernon Burton, David Carlton, Lacy Ford, John McCardell, George Rogers, Scott Strickland, and Tom Terrill stimulated my thinking and often challenged my conclusions. Gretchen Condran, Richard Dunn, Claudia Goldin, Margo Horn, Arthur Johnson, Barbara Kopytoff, Albert Rizzo, Peter Wood, Harold Woodman, and Michael Zuckerman read and criticized sections of the manuscript about which they had special knowledge. A number of my students helped with details of research and in preparation of the manuscript. I want to thank Marlene Heck, Sally Stephenson, and Nina Hyrnko, as well as all the members of my graduate seminars who tolerated my frequent discursions on James Henry Hammond with good humor and even enthusiasm. Carol Bleser shared with me not only her own insights into the Hammonds but numerous M Acknowledgments enlightening exchanges about our complementary projects. As editors, Beverly Jarrett and Bill Cooper were everything an author could hope. Steven Hahn read the entire text and made invaluable comments throughout. With great generosity , Eugene Genovese offered stylistic and substantive criticismsof the manuscript that helped me make this a far better book, even though much remains from which he will no doubt dissent. I owe a very special debt to Allen Stokes. Anyone who has ever worked in the South Caroliniana knows what an extraordinary manuscript librarian he is, and I have benefited throughout this project from his sophisticated understanding of the Hammond Papers as well as a wide range of related documentary material. In addition, Allen has been a sensitive critic of the whole text, and I have been particularly grateful for his viewson the complexities of Hammond's character and motivations. Charles Rosenberg has done more than I could ever hope to recount or repay, unless, perhaps, he regards getting James Henry Hammond out of our house as reward enough. xviii ...