A plantation mistress on the eve of the Civil War
Subtitle: the diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861
By: edited by John Hammond Moore.
Contributors: Moore, John Hammond.
Series: Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins, 1803-1886 -- Diaries.; Plantation owners -- South Carolina -- Columbia Region -- Diaries.; Women -- South Carolina -- Columbia Region -- Diaries.; Secession -- South Carolina.; Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.; Columbia Region (S.C.) -- Biography.
Description: "The diary of Keziah Brevard documents one plantation mistress's personal reflections on the events that were to shape both her world and her Southern homeland for years to come : the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina's session convention, and the attack on Fort Sumter. In 1860, Keziah Brevard was a fifty-seven-year-old widow living nine miles from Columbia, South Carolina, with her slaves as her only companions. She kept a diary to record thoughts and a great variety of matters -- from dramatic events of national importance to her management of three plantations and a grist mill ... Her diary reveals a competent, no-nonsense woman capable of successfully leading a large house-hold as well as several business enterprises"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 130) and index.