| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Wade Hampton III. By Robert K. Ackerman. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xviii, 341 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-667-5.)
In 1960 the historian Eric L. McKitrick wondered whether responsible leaders both North and South might have agreed on terms for Reconstruction. McKitrick speculated that Wade Hampton, "a legendary and heroic figure" who distinguished himself as a Confederate cavalry commander, could have brought fellow white southerners to accept black citizenship (Eric L. McKitrick, Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction, 1960, p. 241).	1
Robert K. Ackerman's new biography provides a fuller modern picture of the postwar Hampton than has previously been available. Hampton was born in 1818 to one of the wealthiest families in South Carolina. Their vast domain included prime cotton plantations in Mississippi and untold numbers of slaves. But much of the family property was lost in the Civil War, as was one of Hampton's sons. Hampton never rebuilt the family fortune—indeed, he subsisted during his last years on a sinecure.	. . .

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