Title: A plantation mistress on the eve of the Civil War
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.
Subjects: Biography, Diaries, History, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Secession, Women, Women, united states, biography, Southern states, biography
Places: Columbia Region, Columbia Region (S.C.), South Carolina
People: Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard (1803-1886)
Time periods: 19th century