by Guy Lancaster
Guy Lancaster is author or editor of several books on racial violence in Arkansas, most recently the revised edition of Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919
, is tentatively scheduled for release by the University of Arkansas Press in the fall of 2021.
James Henry Hammond was the Governor of South Carolina (1842-1844) and U.S. Senator (1857-1860).
He was a principle proponent of the idea of slavery as a positive good for the Black and White races alike, demonstrating the epistemic closure of white supremacy.
“Putting on my pith helmet.” That’s the phrase I used to describe the mental stance I would adopt whenever my wife and I went to her parents’ church on one of our visits to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Theirs was a rather fundamentalist Presbyterian congregation, one that gave truth to the description of Calvinists as the “frozen chosen,” although the pastor did occasionally adopt a youthful and hip style of delivery, perhaps