Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (Cambridge Library Collection - North American History) - Softcover

Kemble, Fanny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108003931 ISBN 13: 9781108003933

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

A few years after her marriage to a wealthy American, the English stage-actress Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893) moved with her husband to his residence in Georgia, where he had inherited two plantations. There she kept a journal of her shocking observations of the practice of slavery. Written over a period of less than four months, Kemble's journal records her day-to-day encounters with her husband's slaves, and attempts to expose the moral injustice of slavery. The journal circulated privately among her friends, but was not published until 1863, long after Kemble's divorce in 1849. Her book is credited with influencing Britain's position of neutrality during the American Civil War despite the cotton industry's lobbying in favour of the South. Kemble's journal remains a lasting and important critique of slavery, and a valuable document about the nineteenth-century American south.

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Book Description:

Frances Anne Kemble's journal, written during a brief residence on a Georgian plantation, records her encounters with her husband's slaves and attempts to expose the moral injustice of slavery. First published in 1863, Kemble's journal remains a lasting and important critique of slavery in the nineteenth-century American south.

From the Back Cover:

Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century. During a tour of America in the 1830s she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family's cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1108003931
• ISBN 13: 9781108003933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448