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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
A fascinating account by British actress Fanny Kemble of her time on her husband Pierce Butler's Georgia plantation. Vehemently anti-slavery, Kemble recounts the horrors of this world + her feeble attempts to help - giving out bits of food + clothing, paying enslaved workers for work outside the fields + illegally helping one man to learn his letters. The book was not published until 1863, after her divorce from Pierce Butler, + the American Civil War had begun. Butler had threatened to keep Kemble from seeing her 2 daughters, whose custody she had lost in the divorce.
Years after the divorce Butler was forced to sell his slaves to pay off gambling debts. It was the largest such sale ever - known a The Weeping Time.
#fannykemble #abolitionist #journal #books #mybookshelf #booklist #journalofaresidenceonageorgianplantation #readinglist
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
A fascinating account by British actress Fanny Kemble of her time on her husband Pierce Butler's Georgia plantation. Vehemently anti-slavery, Kemble recounts the horrors of this world + her feeble attempts to help - giving out bits of food + clothing, paying enslaved workers for work outside the fields + illegally helping one man to learn his letters. The book was not published until 1863, after her divorce from Pierce Butler, + the American Civil War had begun. Butler had threatened to keep Kemble from seeing her 2 daughters, whose custody she had lost in the divorce.
Years after the divorce Butler was forced to sell his slaves to pay off gambling debts. It was the largest such sale ever - known a The Weeping Time.
#fannykemble #abolitionist #journal #books #mybookshelf #booklist #journalofaresidenceonageorgianplantation #readinglist