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Hammond, Edward Spann, 1834-1921. Edward Spann Hammond papers, 1835-1920.

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Edward Spann Hammond papers, 1835-1920.

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Plantation account books, and diaries re politics, Elmwood Plantation, African-American slaves, Civil War, legal practice, and cotton market; telegram, 26 Apr. 1860, J.H. Hammond, Washington, D.C., to Col. B[arnett] H. Brown, Charleston, re power struggles at 1st Confederate Congress; volume, 1859-1860, listing slaves at Cowden Plantation [Aiken County, S.C.] by name and occupation; 2 scrapbooks, c. 1844-1890 and 1847-1864, newspaper clippings re agriculture and policies of Confederate government. Seven diaries, 1852-1920, re student life at Franklin College [University of Georgia], travel to Cincinnati, study of wine industry, political rallies, presidential elections, management of slaves, daily activities as planter before and after Civil War, and Kentucky carpet-baggers; entry, 4 Oct. 1856, re political relations between North and South; 2 undated plantation manuals re duties of overseer, food and clothing allowances, hours of work, and policy towards children and pregnancies. Four plantation account books, 1857-1860 and 1870, 1857-1858, 1859-1863, and 1900-1910, re agricultural experiments; land purchases; Hammond family genealogy; and lists of slaves identified by name, age, value, and capacity for work; and accounts with sharecroppers; letter book, 1861-1909, re death of James Henry Hammond; volume, 1866-1868, re efforts to sell E.S. Hammond's Va. plantation and settle his father's estate; vol., 1889-1904, S.C. politics, and agricultural depression of 1893-1894. Cotton account book, 1877-1879, re laborers; vol., 1877-1884, Barnwell County, criminal docket listing cases, witnesses, jurors, and verdicts; oversize vol., 1897-1902, U.S. Commissioner's Docket [PU-5]; vol., c.1895, re cotton seed oil industry; letter, 25 Oct. 1890, to D.W. Boon, re issues in John Cheves Haskell and Ben Tillman campaign; letter, 15 Aug. 1891, to his mother re recent speech and death of cotton trade; letters, 1889-1892, to Interstate Commerce Commission, re lawsuit of melon growers versus S.C. Railway Company. Letter, 4 Oct. 1893, to Wade Hampton, re postmaster appointment, opposition to S.A. Woodward, and support for [Grover] Cleveland; 2 letters, 28 Jan. 1896, to Stanwix G. Mayfield, and 18 Feb. 1896, to O.C. Jordan, re election of education trustees by districts; letter, 5 Feb. 1896, to Martin B[ryan] Woodward, Aiken, S.C., re Barnwell County, Carolina Midland Railway Company, and local cotton textile factory. Two journals, 1870-1875 and 1880-1907, Aiken and Barnwell Counties, S.C., re farming and tenants, legal activities, politics, and a personal account of 1886 Charleston earthquake.