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A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War - The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-61 (Paperback, New edition)
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A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War - The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-61 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Women's Diaries & Letters of the Nineteenth Century South
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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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