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Bookmark or Share- Freedom: A History of US. Biography. James Henry Hammond | PBS - THIRTEENJames Henry Hammond | PBS. You would have a difficult time finding a more southern southerner than James Henry Hammond. He owned large plantations on the Savannah River in his native South...
- Hammond, James Henry - South Carolina EncyclopediaCongressman, governor, U.S. senator. Son of the New England emigrant Elisha Hammond and Catherine Fox Spann of Edgefield, Hammond was born on November 15, 1807, in Newberry District. Schooled at home by his father, he entered South Carolina College, a breeding ground for the state’s political leaders, at the age of sixteen.
- MONSTER OF ALL HE SURVEYED - The New York TimesJames Henry Hammond, a South Carolina slaveholder who became both governor of his state and a United States senator before the Civil War, kept diaries he called ''secret and sacred'' in which...
- James Henry Hammond advocates slavery - PBSJames Henry Hammond was a senator and wealthy plantation owner from South Carolina. This excerpt is from a speech he made to the Senate on March 4, 1858, in which he lays out his famous "mudsill...
- James H. Hammond - WikipediaJames Henry Hammond (November 15, 1807 – November 13, 1864) was an American attorney, politician, and planter. He served as a United States representative from 1835 to 1836, the 60th Governor of South Carolina from 1842 to 1844, and a United States senator from 1857 to 1860.
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