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	A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861 (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South) by Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard
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Product Details Binding Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number 975.703092 EAN 9780872498419 ISBN 0872498417 Manufacturer Univ of South Carolina Pr Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 144 Publication Date 1992-10 Publisher Univ of South Carolina Pr Availability Usually ships in 1-2 business days Product Description Reflects the events leading up to the Civil War and records of everyday This diary by a 57-year-old widowed South Carolina plantation owner vividly evokes the mundane concerns of the antebellum plantation period as well as events leading up to the fall of Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War. Skillfully edited by Moore, a chronicler of South Carolina's history and society, the book is the sixth in the publisher's series of diaries and letters by 19th-century Southern women. Keziah's account of her stewardship of a large plantation and her reports on crops, wine-making and weather reflect a keen mind and a capable, independent though spiritually tormented character. Significant, also, are her observations about many of her 200 slaves whose hostility, with the exception of a few favorites, she deplores and whom she considers for the most part a 'multitude of half barbarians . . . not prepared for the freedom' advocated by 'the rabble of the North.' Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Reflects the events leading up to the Civil War and records of everyday Customers who bought this item also bought A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862 Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 (Library of Southern Civilization) Mary's World : Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston See all books by author Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard

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