Edmund Ruffin diaries, 1856-1865 [electronic resource], 1834-1869 1857-1864.

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1 online resource (13 manuscripts; 238 items).

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.

Reproduction of the original from the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

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Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.

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