Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0820307076 ISBN13: 9780820307077 Release Date: March 1984 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Length: 488 Pages Weight: 1.20 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.4" Originally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble's Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the "peculiar institution" and of life in the antebellum South.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 vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia. After their marriage she spent several months living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw, she recorded her observations of plantation life in a seri