A plantation mistress on the eve of the Civil War

by Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard

1993 137 pages eng

"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 Bre…