Description
An insightful prelude to the well-known wartime diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut and Emma Holmes
The diary Keziah Brevard documents one plantation mistress's reflections on the momentous events that shook the South during the months leading up to the Civil War: the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina's secession convention, and the attack on Fort Sumter. A childless middle-aged widow, Brevard lived nine miles from Columbia, South Carolina, with her slaves as her only companions. In her diary she recorded everyday stewardship of two plantations, a farm, and a gristmill. In the journal Brevard also grappled with her most private struggles, including her vacillation about the morality of secession and slavery, her fear of abolitionists, and her sense of foreboding about the coming conflict.
Author: John Hammond Moore
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 05/11/1996
Pages: 148
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781570031250
ISBN10: 1570031258
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
About the Author
John Hammond Moore, formerly a writer-researcher on the staff of the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina, is author of Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community, 1740-1900.