Secret and Sacred
Subtitle: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 25, 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780195053081
First sentence: James Henry Hammond compared his life to that of the mythical Sisyphus, compelled to roll a stone to the top of a slope, the stone always escaping him near the top and rolling down again except, Hammond added melodramatically, that "the stone rolling back has always broken some limb of mine and utterly crushed some body connected with me."