Wade Hampton and the Negro, The Road Not Taken.


Biography of Wade Hampton III (1818–1902), wealthy planter—one of the largest slaveholders in the Southeast—Confederate officer, and controversial South Carolina governor and two-term U.S. Senator. During Reconstruction, Hampton argued for limited Black (male) suffrage; he later won the governorship of South Carolina by stirring up racial animosity, helped by white paramilitary political clubs. “The Hamburg massacre in July 1876, in which six blacks and one white were killed, was the worst outbreak of violence in a campaign characterized by white attempts to demoralize black voters.” (ANB)


Description: Wade Hampton and the Negro, The Road Not Taken.

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1949. First Edition. 209pp. Publisher’s cloth; without dust jacket. Gift inscription on free, front endpaper. Near Fine.

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Price: $35.00

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