Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Release date:	July 2009
First published:	July 2009
Authors:	Fanny Kemble
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-00393-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-108-00393-1
Barcode:	9781108003933

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