A formerly private diary entitled "Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder" (University of South Carolina Press, 2008) edited by Carol Bleser with a foreword ...

In December of that year, James Henry Hammond came back here to Redcliffe when South Carolina seceded from the Union. And approximately four months later, the Northern states declared war on cotton.

Originally, the school was called James H. Hammond Academy and flew the Confederate flag alongside the American and South Carolina flags until 1984, according to the book Shades of Gray ...

“Cotton is King,” James Henry Hammond, South Carolina politician and master of Redcliffe Plantation, declared on the floor of the U.S. Senate in 1858. Long before the dominance of that single ...