James Henry Hammond
November 15, 1807 - November 13, 1864
In 1839, he purchased a young female slave, Sally Johnson, with her infant daughter, Louisa. He took Sally Johnson as his mistress and fathered several of her children before replacing her with her twelve-year-old daughter, Louisa, with whom he fathered several more children. His other slaves fared no better. It was reported, in 1841, that seventy-eight of his chattel died in a ten-year period.
His Secret and Sacred Diaries reveal that his appetites did not end there. He describes, without embarrassment, his 'familiarities and dalliances' with four teenage nieces - the daughters of Wade Hampton II. Blaming the seductiveness of the "extremely affectionate" young women, his political career was crushed for a decade to come, and the girls with their tarnished social reputations never married. He also had a homosexual lover, Thomas Jefferson Withers, and exchanged many letters with sexual content with him.
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
