- Description
- 1 online resource (13 manuscripts; 238 items).
- Summary
- Edmund Ruffin's diaries describe the views of a plantation owner, pro-slavery advocate, and a member of the Virginia state legislature. This collection provides a vision of life on Virginia plantations in the years leading up to and during the Civil War.
- Series Statement
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery
- Uniform Title
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.
- Subject
- Note
- Reproduction of the original from the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
- OCLC
- Author
Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865.
- Title
Edmund Ruffin diaries, 1856-1865 [electronic resource], 1834-1869 1857-1864.
- Series
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.
- Local Note
aImages from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.
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