James Henry Hammond
November 15, 1807 - November 13, 1864
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH PAINTS A PICTURE OF HAMMOND THAT IS PATENTLY UNTRUE:
Devoted to his family, he was scarcely less so to his slaves. Lightly tasked, well clothed, well fed, their lives and persons protected, their sufferings alleviated by the kindest care, their domestic offections cherished with conscientious deliacy, a church built for them, Christian preaching with religious instructim in a Sunday School furnished, it would have been difficult to find a happier or more progressive body of agricultural laborers with renter local attachments, more trusting in, and trusted by those they worked for, than the slaves on his plantations.
The true James Hammond is more intimately detailed in his own diary published under the name "Secret and Sacred."
REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry _Hammond
A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond by Roland Hammond, M.D.
Selections from the letters and speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina by James Henry Hammond
