Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation

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Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation
By Francis Anne Kemble
Hardcover, 160 pp

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Fanny Kemble, a twenty-nine-year-old Shakespearean actress, and her husband, the aristocratic, arrogant Pierce Butler of Philadelphia, spent the winter of 1838-39 on the Georgia coast, where Butler owned three slave plantations with more than seven hundred slaves. Now the genteel English-born Fanny found herself transported to a shocking frontier land of semitropical rain forests, bugs, snakes, shacks, cotton and rice plantations and slavery – “the outer bounds of civilized creation… the very end of the world.”

Though Fanny’s journal reflects her strong antislavery sentiments, it is probably as accurate an account as can be found of life on large plantations – one face of a many-faceted institution. The journal is also one of the most colorful and dramatic accounts of slavery, highlighted by the personal stories told to Fanny by the slaves themselves.

Greeted with affection and loyalty, huzzahs and hugs upon her arrival, Fanny soon becomes annoyed at the filthy intimacy of the slaves. Later she becomes distressed as the slaves continue to importune her with incessant demands for food, clothing and relief from labor. Finally, she is horrified to learn the truth about the harsh discipline, and many bastard mulatto children, inflicted on the plantations by the Yankee-born overseer.

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