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News and Views: James Henry Hammond's Defense of Slavery

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From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Date: 19970930
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News and Views: James Henry Hammond's Defense of Slavery

The abolitionist movement is well documented in America's history books. Schoolchildren learn the names of William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Charles Sumner. Senior college papers abound on the lives of these warriors for freedom. But the slaveholders, too, had their champion. The most eloquent spokesman for slaveholding interests was James Henry Hammond of South Carolina.

After the Constitutional Convention of 1787 slavery in the United States continued to be a bitterly contested issue in the newly formed ...

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