The Diary of Edmund Ruffin

Description

The series celebrates the Virginia agricultural reformer and apostle of secession covers the increasingly melancholy events of the last years of the Civil War and Edmund Ruffin’s life. Volume III is a record about first impressions of public events, as Ruffin’s claimed comments on religion, race, class and politics. The topics he mentions include the controversial enrollment of black troops and the transition to free labor at war’s end as an extension on de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.