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

by Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570031258
• ISBN13: 9781570031250
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"