Title: Edmund Ruffin diaries, 1856-1865
Description: Edmund Ruffin's diaries describe the views of a plantation owner, pro-slavery advocate, and a member of the Virginia state legislature. This collection provides a vision of life on Virginia plantations in the years leading up to and during the Civil War.
Subjects: Plantations, Christianity, Slavery, Social life and customs, Politics and government, History
Places: Virginia, Beechwood Plantation (Prince George County, Va.), Confederate States of America, Marlbourne Plantation (Hanover County, Va.), South Carolina
People: Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865, 1775-1865, 1861-1865