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Author | : Fanny Kemble |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Georgia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frances Anne Kemble |
Publisher | : Bandanna Books |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2015-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780942208894 |
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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.
Author | : Catherine Clinton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : 0684844141 |
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A biography of the British stage star turned plantation mistress, whose abolitionist writings made her an unlikely heroine of the Union cause--and whose life intersected in bold and dramatic ways with the most tumultuous of American conflicts, the Civil War. 64 illustrations.
Author | : Fanny Kemble |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674039475 |
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Henry James called Fanny Kemble's autobiography "one of the most animated autobiographies in the language." Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to her essays, poetry, plays, and a novel, Kemble published six works of memoir, eleven volumes in all, covering her life, which began in the first decade of the nineteenth century and ended in the last. Her autobiographical writings are compelling evidence of Kemble's wit and talent, and they also offer a dazzling overview of her transatlantic world. Kemble kept up a running commentary in letters and diaries on the great issues of her day. The selections here provide a narrative thread tracing her intellectual development-especially her views on women and slavery. She is famous for her identification with abolitionism, and many excerpts reveal her passionate views on the subject. The selections show a life full of personal tragedy as well as professional achievements. An elegant introduction provides a context for appreciating Kemble's remarkable life and achievements, and the excerpts from her journals allow her, once again, to speak for herself.
Author | : Fanny Kemble |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1879 |
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Author | : Anne C. Bailey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2017-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108141218 |
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In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.
Author | : Anne Ludlum |
Publisher | : Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : 9780871298522 |
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Author | : Rebecca Jenkins |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster (UK) |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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A portrait of a 19th-century star and her struggle against the injustice of the times.
Author | : Ann Blainey |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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A tale of two extraodinarily gifted sisters and their encounters with nineteenth-century society.
Author | : John David Cox |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0820330868 |
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Traveling South is the first major study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity during the years between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. John Cox makes his case on the basis of a broad range of texts that includes slave narratives, domestic literature, and soldiers’ diaries, as well as more traditional forms of travel writing. In the process he extends the boundaries of travel literature both as a genre and as a subject of academic study. The writers of these intranational accounts struggled with the significance of travel through a region that was both America and “other.” In writings by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram, for example, the narrators create personal identities and express their Americanness through travel that, Cox argues, becomes a defining aspect of the young nation. In the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup, the complex relationship between travel and slavery highlights contemporary debates over the meaning of space and movement. Both Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs explore the intimate linkings of women’s travel and the construction of an ideal domestic space, whereas Frederick Law Olmsted seeks, through his travel writing, to reform the southern economy and expand a New England yeoman ideology throughout the nation. The Civil War diaries of Union soldiers, written during the years that witnessed the largest movement of travelers through the South, echo earlier themes while concluding that the South should not be transformed in order to become sufficiently “American”; rather, it was and should remain a part of the American nation, regardless of perceived differences.