This book tells the story of four generations of a prominent South Carolina family, beginning with James Henry Hammond, a pre-Civil war state governor and later US senator, and the man who coined the phrase "cotton is king", and ending with the remaining Hammond descendants, living in New York but retaining ownership of the old family plantation in redcliffe. It provides a detailed account of the fortunes of a Southern family over a century. Readership: students of Amercian History.
- ISBN10 0195029208
- ISBN13 9780195029208
- Publish Date 24 September 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1992
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 444
- Language English