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Discussing The Hammonds of Redcliffe, with Carol Bleser
BROADCAST: Dec. 2, 1981 |
DURATION: 00:47:38
Synopsis
After discovering the family letters of James Henry Hammond in the archives of a South Carolina library, Carol Bleser set about telling a rather troubling saga - of slavery, sexual assault, and hypocrisy in the South, before and after the Civil War.
*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations