Edmund Ruffin Diaries 1856-1865

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Edmund Ruffin Diaries 1856-1865

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010091

Plantation owner and publisher. Diaries detailing Ruffin's activities and opinions as an experimentalist in agriculture, anti-Unionist and slavery advocate, and describing plantation life in his Virginia estates.

14 volumes; 14 containers; 3.2 linear feet; 7 microfilm reels

eng,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356978

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865

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Agriculturalist and prominent Secessionist. From the description of Papers of Edmund Ruffin [manuscript], 1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647855369 Edmund Ruffin was a noted agriculturalist and publisher of Prince George and Hanover counties, Va. He was a strong defender of slavery and a secessionist. From the description of Edmund Ruffin papers, 1784-1893. WorldCat record id: 32040042 Edmund Ruffin was an agricultural experimenter an...