"Politics South Carolina Politics and government 1823-1864." . . "United States" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "History"@en . . . . "James Henry Hammond"@en . . . . . . . "The James Henry Hammond Papers consists of correspondence, diaries, plantation account books and manuals, scrapbooks and manuscipt and printed copies of Hammond's speeches, reflecting South Carolina and national politics in the decades before the Civil War. Topics include state's rights; slavery; state banks; the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850); secession; nullification; and the tariff. The plantation books give detailed lists of holdings in land and slaves from 1832 to 1858. Correspondents include A.P. Aldrich, Braxton Bragg, Pierce M. Butler, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, James Gadsen, James Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Francis W. Pickens, William C. Preston, R. Barnwell Rhett, William Gilmore Simms, Alexander H. Stephens, Martin Van Buren, and James M. Walker. Also included is a letter book (1774-1776, 1780) of Andrew McLean, a merchant from Savannah and Augusta, Georgia, to Clark and Millugan, London merchants."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .