A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War
Subtitle: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861 (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South)
Contributors: John Hammond Moore (Editor)
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
Published: October 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780872498419
Subjects: Plantation owners; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); History: American; Women In The U.S.; Women; History - Military / War; South Carolina; Secession; Military - General; United States - State & Local; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: historical; Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins; USA; c 1800 to c 1900; Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkin; 1803-1886; Columbia Region; Diaries
First sentence: The pages that follow are concerned largely with the perplexing problem of relationships faced on the eve of the Civil War by Keziah G. H. Brevard, a fifty-seven-year-old widow living in Richland District, the heart of South Carolina.