The Hammonds of Redcliffe

Amazon.com Price: $21.95 (as of 06/05/2019 07:04 PST- Details)

Description

Drawing on four generations of circle of relatives correspondence –reflecting the hopes, fears, desires, frustrations, and screw ups of an American circle of relatives touched by personal scandal– this book presents the saga of the Hammonds of Redcliffe from before the Civil War to after the New Deal. Set in Redcliffe, the plantation home of the Hammonds, this sweeping choice of letters, many of them by women, recaptures a lifestyle that may be gone endlessly as it provides fascinating insights into the reactions of the participants to disaster at the battlefield and at the homefront and into the agony of an eminent plantation circle of relatives that needed to adjust as best it would to a new social order. More than just the story of one circle of relatives, the book casts in high relief the entire fabric of society: how all people worked and wept, married and mourned, lived and died.

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » Civil War » The Hammonds of Redcliffe

Recent Products