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Principles and Privilege - Two Women's Lives on a Georgia Plantation
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Principles and Privilege - Two Women's Lives on a Georgia Plantation
Kemble, Frances Anne and Leigh, Frances A. Butler
$20.00

When internationally famous British actress Fanny Kemble married Phildelphian Pierce Butler in 1834, she had no idea that he was heir to a vast slave plantation in Georgia. Kemble was an abolitionist, a position reinforced by what she considered to be the superiority of her native British culture and politics. Horrified at the situation she found herself in, she kept a journal in the form of letters to her close friend, Elizabeth Sedgwick. The result is an impassioned, dynamic chronicle of her work to improve the living conditions of the slaves and intercede on their behalf with her husband and the plantation overseers. While Kemble's journal is fascinating in the context of antebellum abolitionism, her daughter's account provides intriguing insight into Reconstruction from the privileged southern woman's point of view. Published in 1883, Frances A. Butler Leigh's memoirs focus on her return to the plantation where she had been raised by her father - who had won exclusive custody when he and Kemble divorced - and her attempt to renegotiate her relationship to her father's former slaves in the days after emancipation. Upon returning to the ravished plantation, Leigh tenderly rehangs a portrait of Robert E. Lee over the mantle while newly freed slaves look on. Her final chapter is, in fact, an apologia for slavery. Sadly, Kemble's name is never mentioned in Leigh's journal...

Second hand Paperback
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ISBN: 
9780472065226
SKU:
45171