A South Carolina man is accused of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan ...

“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 ...

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.