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)
The diary of Keziah Brevard evokes the mundane concerns of the plantation period. It also documents her reflections on the events leading up to the American Civil War: the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina's secession convention and the attack on Fort Sumter.
