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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839

Kemble, Fanny

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ISBN10: 9354020054
ISBN13: 9789354020056
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 25 2020
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step onto a Georgia plantation in 1838 and listen as Fanny Kemble keeps her eyes open. Nothing here is easy reading. In this nineteenth century diary, the celebrated actress records daily impressions of a world built on coerced labour, measuring what she sees against her conscience and her growing opposition to bondage. English-born and famous on the stage, she married into a slaveholding family and spent months on a Georgia plantation 1838 estate. Written privately and later published in 1863, her journal captures the shock of proximity and the slow hardening of conviction. Part plantation memoir and part American history primary source, this unabridged journal edition brings you close to the textures of antebellum plantation life: work routines, household management, the language of power, and the human cost behind it all. Kemble writes as an outsider inside the system, making her pages an abolitionist firsthand account of slavery on Georgia plantations and a vital lens on the antebellum South Georgia world. For readers drawn to slave narrative classics and an abolitionist literature collection, her testimony stands beside the era's most urgent voices; for Southern history research, it remains a candid record of lives, laws, and contradictions on the eve of rupture, and a touchstone of nineteenth-century abolitionist writing for classic-literature collectors. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, to keep and often revisit across generations.

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