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

Reflects the events leading up to the Civil War and records of everyday

About the author

John Hammond Moore, formerly a writer-researcher on the staff of the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina, is author of Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community, 1740-1900.

Summary

The diary of Keziah Brevard evokes the mundane concerns of the plantation period. It also documents her reflections on the events leading up to the American Civil War: the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina's secession convention and the attack on Fort Sumter.

Product details

• Authors: Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins
• Assisted by: John H. Moore (Editor), John Hammond Moore (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.1996
• EAN: 9781570031250
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-125-0
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 263 g
• Series: Women's Diaries and Letters of; Women's Diaries and Letters of; Women's Diaries & Letters of the Nineteenth Century South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies