Publisher's Synopsis
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 American history.
