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- Kemble opposed slavery—“for I am an Englishwoman,” she wrote, “in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.”
www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/afterlife-fanny-kembles-journalThe Afterlife of Fanny Kemble’s Journal - Lapham’s Quarterly
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Kemble's "lasting historical importance...derives from the private journal she kept during her time in the Sea Islands " on her husband's plantations, where she wrote a journal documenting the conditions of the slaves on the plantation and her growing abolitionist feelings.
Fanny Kemble was very troubled by slavery and wrote of her Georgia experiences in her diary, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839. It became quite famous in Great Britain and northern states for its antislavery message.
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble is a 2000 American television film starring Jane Seymour and directed by James Keach. It depicts the life of British actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble, who sees first-hand the horrors of slavery when she marries an American plantation owner.
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Fanny Kemble Learns about Abuses of Slave Women. In 1834, the beautiful and famous English actress, Fanny Kemble, married Pierce Butler, a fabulously wealthy American who owned hundreds of slaves who labored on his family's plantations located on the coast of Georgia.
Jan 22, 2003 · The British actress and writer Fanny Kemble’s infamous entanglement with Georgia began in the 1830s when she married Pierce Mease Butler, who in 1836 inherited his grandfather’s legacy, including hundreds of enslaved Africans and several plantations on the Sea Islands.
Fanny Kemble was an abolitionist; her husband Pierce Butler was a slaveholder. With such diametrically opposed views, it's no wonder that their initially blissful marriage would end in...
Fanny Kemble (born Nov. 27, 1809, London, Eng.—died Jan. 15, 1893, London) was a popular English actress who is also remembered as the author of plays, poems, and reminiscences, the latter containing much information about the stage and social history of the 19th century.
