“God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system... Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines; and the mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children.”

About Mary Boykin Chesnut

Author • American

Mary Boykin Chesnut was an American author and diarist noted for her detailed account of Southern society during the Civil War. Born into a prominent South Carolina political family, she was intimately connected with...