Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838 1839 written by Fanny Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838 1839 written by Fanny Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838 1839 written by Fanny Kemble and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 is a testimony of what Fanny Kemble saw and was dismayed by while being married to a wealthy plantation owner during the height of slavery in America.

Download or read book Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation 1838 1839 written by Frances Anna Kemble and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 by Frances Anna Kemble

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838 1839 written by Frances Kemble and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following diary was kept in the winter and spring of 1838-9, on an estate consisting of rice and cotton plantations, in the islands at the entrance of the Altamaha, on the coast of Georgia. The slaves in whom I then had an unfortunate interest were sold some years ago. The islands themselves are at present in the power of the Northern troops. The record contained in the following pages is a picture of conditions of human existence which I hope and believe have passed away. LONDON: January 16, 1863. 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.

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838 1839 written by Frances Anne Kemble and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1975-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia.

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation In 1838 1839 written by Frances Anne Kemble and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838 1839 written by Fanny Kemble and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most outspoken, damning record against slavery that we have read for many years past. The book should be read by everyone who believes in Southern chivalry." -Reader "There is but one argument for slavery which is openly produced in England, and that is something like this; slavery is, after all, but a name; in every country the laborer is subjected to the power of the capitalist, and the compulsion of hunger, if not more severe, is more regular and persistent than the compulsion of physical pain. For the rest, slavery as a form of labor has large compensations, the workman being saved from anxiety, from the dread of starvation, and from the terror of an old age of poverty and want. Except for the immutability of his condition, an incident accompanying free labor everywhere except in the United States and a small section of Europe, the slave is as well off as the unskilled white artisan....We would recommend all to whom this line of argument seems effective to read a series of letters...written in 1848, by Miss F. A. Kemble, then the English wife of a planter in Georgia....Not moved apparently by any strong religious ideas, Miss Kemble had singular opportunities for unprejudiced observation, and the result is a condemnation of slavery more severe than any in which professed philanthropists would venture to indulge. It is a system based upon human misery and degradation, having no end save the owner's profit, no bulwark except incessant terror. Miss Kemble, it will be remembered, was on a well-managed plantation, held by merciful owners, where punishment, by a rule of the estate, was strictly limited, and where the head man was himself a grave, intelligent Negro. On this property she found the Negroes lodged in wretched huts, with one room twelve feet square and two little side cabins like those of a ship. Two families, sometimes eight or ten in number, lived in each, sleeping on mattresses of strewn forest moss, and covered with a 'pestilential' blanket....It was the women to whom Miss Kemble chiefly attended; among them the forms of suffering were manifold and terrible, for besides every kind of pain to which free laborers are liable, there is one peculiar to the slave women, and of which Miss Kemble's book is full till it is sickening to read. Slave-breeding pays well, and, as a consequence, the women, transferred to one 'husband' after another, and at the mercy of every overseer - headman Frank's wife was quietly taken away while the authoress was there, kept a year by the overseer, and then returned - perish of childbearing. The women are stimulated by the pride of being valuable to the estate, and wretched creatures worn out with labor still exultingly told their mistress that they would yield 'plenty of little nigs for massa.' They have frequently ten or eleven children, are flogged when pregnant, and three weeks after confinement driven back to work in the cotton field. The consequence is an illness not often mentioned out of a medical journal, pain in the back, and every conceivable form of uterine disease. The one petition of these poor women was for a longer period of rest, and they were flogged for petitioning, flogged....Miss Kemble found that the laws against teaching slaves to read were strictly enforced; she was told by her own overseer that her mere presence among the slaves was full of danger to the institution; her husband forbade her to present petitions, and she was finally compelled to leave the South utterly unable to endure the sense of her own powerlessness. And this is an inevitable incident of slavery, and prohibits even the influence of voluntary benevolence from above." -The Living Age

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838 1839 Kemble Fanny written by Kemble Fanny and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passage from the book... My Dear E--. I return you Mr. --'s letter. I do not think it answers any of the questions debated in our last conversation at all satisfactorily: the right one man has to enslave another, he has not the hardihood to assert; but in the reasons he adduces to defend that act of injustice, the contradictory statements he makes appear to me to refute each other. He says, that to the continental European protesting against the abstract iniquity of slavery, his answer would be, 'the slaves are infinitely better off than half the continental peasantry.' To the Englishman, 'they are happy compared with the miserable Irish.' But supposing that this answered the question of original injustice, which it does not, it is not a true reply. Though the negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freeman-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them. Ask the thousands of ragged destitutes who yearly land upon these shores to seek the means of existence-ask the friendless, penniless foreign emigrant, if he will give up his present misery, his future uncertainty, his doubtful and difficult struggle for life, at once, for the secure, and as it is called, fortunate dependance of the slave: the indignation with which he would spurn the offer will prove that he possesses one good beyond all others, and that his birthright as a man is more precious to him yet than the mess of pottage for which he is told to exchange it because he is starving.Of course the reverse alternative cannot be offered to the slaves, for at the very word the riches of those who own them would make themselves wings and flee away.

Download or read book Journal Of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation In 1838 1839 Volume 1 written by Fanny Kemble and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny Kemble's Journal provides an intimate look at life on a southern plantation in the mid-19th century. As an actress and writer, Kemble brought a wealth of talent and perspective to her observations. This book is a powerful reminder of the horrors of slavery, and the resilience of those who fought against it. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Fanny Kemble s Journal written by Frances Anne Kemble and published by Bandanna Books. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal indictment of the institute of slavery in the Southern United States, as witnessed directly by Fanny Kemble, a British actress in 1838 and 1839. Her husband, the heir to the plantations in Georgia, however, forebade her to publish this material on pain of never seeing her daughters again. She complied, until the two daughters had reached the age of 21, and then allowed the journal to be published in 1863, when the Northern troops were already present along the coast near the Altamaha River, where the plantations were located. In a very personal way, she relates her many varied experiences, efforts to make life easier for the slaves despite her husband's stubborn resistance. As an English citizen, she had seen the total end of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, just a few years before her journey to Georgia. She ends her account with a stirring defense of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had raised such a storm of controversy in the United States. Like Stowe, Kemble sees all sides of the situation, with her eyes and with her heart.

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838 1839 written by Frances Anne Kemble and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893) was a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre.

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Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation written by Kemble Fanny and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1839 1893 written by Fanny Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliographical notes" p. 406-415 - Bibliographical footnotes.

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Download or read book Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838 1839 written by Frances Anne Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: