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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b3880786.
- catalog contributor b3880787.
- catalog coverage "Columbia Region (S.C.) Biography.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Cast : Keziah's friends and relatives -- The diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, July 1860 -- April 1861 -- Epilogue : after the war.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 130) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 137 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Plantation mistress on the eve of the Civil War.".
- catalog identifier "0872498417 (hard : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Plantation mistress on the eve of the Civil War.".
- catalog isPartOf "Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Plantation mistress on the eve of the Civil War.".
- catalog spatial "Columbia Region (S.C.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina Columbia Region".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina.".
- catalog subject "975.7/03/092 20".
- catalog subject "Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins, 1803-1886 Diaries.".
- catalog subject "F279.C7 B74 1992".
- catalog subject "F279.C7 B74 1993".
- catalog subject "Plantation life South Carolina History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Plantation owners South Carolina Columbia Region Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Secession South Carolina.".
- catalog subject "Women South Carolina Columbia Region Diaries.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Cast : Keziah's friends and relatives -- The diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, July 1860 -- April 1861 -- Epilogue : after the war.".
- catalog title "A plantation mistress on the eve of the Civil War : the diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861 / edited by John Hammond Moore.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Diaries. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".