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Fanny Kemble. Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing, and works about the theatre.
Showtime. Release. April 23, 2000. ( 2000-04-23) Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble is a 2000 American television film starring Jane Seymour and directed by James Keach. It depicts the life of British actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble, who sees first-hand the horrors of slavery when she marries an American plantation owner.
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Jan 22, 2003 · Fanny Kemble. The British actress and writer Fanny Kemble’s infamous entanglement with Georgia began in the 1830s when she married Pierce Mease Butler, who in 1836 inherited his grandfather’s legacy, including hundreds of enslaved Africans and several plantations on the Sea Islands. Frances Anne Kemble was born in 1809 into the first family ...
Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler. Their own private civil war would foreshadow the country's. Fanny Kemble was an abolitionist; her husband Pierce Butler was a slaveholder. With such diametrically ...
In 1834, the beautiful and famous English actress, Fanny Kemble, married Pierce Butler, a fabulously wealthy American who owned hundreds of slaves who labored on his family's plantations located on the coast of Georgia. Kemble lived on Butler's plantation from 1838 to 1839 and confronted for the first time the realities of slavery that made ...
According to Georgia historian Melanie Pavich-Lindsay, the Butler family came to Georgia from South Carolina and eventually amassed plantations and hundreds of slaves on St. Simons Island. Fanny Kemble was very troubled by slavery and wrote of her Georgia experiences in her diary, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839. It became quite famous in Great Britain and northern ...
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Apr 19, 2000 · Celebrities have long aligned themselves with political causes, but few actually make as significant a difference as Fanny Kemble, a British actress whose memoirs of life on a slave-owning ...
