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 series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. But
she never sent the letters, and not until the Civil War was on and
Fanny was divorced from Pierce Butler and living in England were
they published.
This Brown Thrasher edition incorporates the valuable
introduction written by John A. Scott for the 1961 edition
published by Alfred A. Knopf, together with the editor's appendices
to that edition. It provides the modern reader with the historical
and biographical background to move freely and with ease in Mrs.
Kemble's world.
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