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Plantation Mistress on the Eve on the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861

Plantation Mistress on the Eve on the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861

Moore, John H.
Hopkins, Keziah Goodwyn
Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins

Paperback

Series: Women's Diaries and Letters of the South

Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN10: 1570031258
ISBN13: 9781570031250
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Feb 1 1996
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.03
Language: English

An insightful prelude to the well-known wartime diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut and Emma Holmes

The diary Keziah Brevard documents one plantation mistress's reflections on the momentous events that shook the South during the months leading up to the Civil War: the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina's secession convention, and the attack on Fort Sumter. A childless middle-aged widow, Brevard lived nine miles from Columbia, South Carolina, with her slaves as her only companions. In her diary she recorded everyday stewardship of two plantations, a farm, and a gristmill. In the journal Brevard also grappled with her most private struggles, including her vacillation about the morality of secession and slavery, her fear of abolitionists, and her sense of foreboding about the coming conflict.

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