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Women in Slavery: Selections from her Journal of Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839

Catherine Clinton

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Journal of Residence on a Georgian Plantation , has secured Fanny Kemble’s reputation as a prescient observer of the plantation world of the antebellum South. While Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted wrote about the region as cultural tourists, Fanny Kemble, married to a wealthy American slaveholder, Pierce Butler, with vast holdings in Georgia’s Sea Islands, wrote about her experience on her husband’s estates from the perspective of an “insider” as well as an “outsider.” It was this double consciousness and Kemble’s ability to translate life so dramatically onto the page that provided readers with a sense of being eyewitness to unfolding events. Her rendering of even the most mundane details of everyday life proved fascinating. Her close and vivid remembrances of plantation life have remained enduring.

Language: English

Pages: 45

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Now and Then Reader

Release: April 17, 2012

Women in Slavery: Selections from her Journal of Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839

Catherine Clinton

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Journal of Residence on a Georgian Plantation , has secured Fanny Kemble’s reputation as a prescient observer of the plantation world of the antebellum South. While Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted wrote about the region as cultural tourists, Fanny Kemble, married to a wealthy American slaveholder, Pierce Butler, with vast holdings in Georgia’s Sea Islands, wrote about her experience on her husband’s estates from the perspective of an “insider” as well as an “outsider.” It was this double consciousness and Kemble’s ability to translate life so dramatically onto the page that provided readers with a sense of being eyewitness to unfolding events. Her rendering of even the most mundane details of everyday life proved fascinating. Her close and vivid remembrances of plantation life have remained enduring.

Language: English

Pages: 45

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Now and Then Reader

Release: April 17, 2012

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