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CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION Books of enduring scholarly value History The books reissued in this series include accounts of historical events and movements by eye-witnesses and contemporaries, as well as landmark studies that assembled significant source materials or developed new historiographical methods. The series includes work in social, political and military history on a wide range of periods and regions, giving modern scholars ready access to influential publications of the past. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 A few years after her marriage to a wealthy American, the English stage- actress Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893) moved with her husband to his residence in Georgia, where he had inherited two plantations. There she kept a journal of her shocking observations of the practice of slavery. Written over a period of less than four months, Kemble’s journal records her day-to-day encounters with her husband’s slaves, and attempts to expose the moral injustice of slavery. The journal circulated privately among her friends, but was not published until 1863, long after Kemble’s divorce in 1849. Her book is credited with influencing Britain’s position of neutrality during the American Civil War despite the cotton industry’s lobbying in favour of the South. Kemble’s journal remains a lasting and important critique of slavery, and a valuable document about the nineteenth-century American south. Cambridge University Press has long been a pioneer in the reissuing of out-of-print titles from its own backlist, producing digital reprints of books that are still sought after by scholars and students but could not be reprinted economically using traditional technology. The Cambridge Library Collection extends this activity to a wider range of books which are still of importance to researchers and professionals, either for the source material they contain, or as landmarks in the history of their academic discipline. Drawing from the world-renowned collections in the Cambridge University Library, and guided by the advice of experts in each subject area, Cambridge University Press is using state-of-the-art scanning machines in its own Printing House to capture the content of each book selected for inclusion. The files are processed to give a consistently clear, crisp image, and the books finished to the high quality standard for which the Press is recognised around the world. The latest print-on-demand technology ensures that the books will remain available indefinitely, and that orders for single or multiple copies can quickly be supplied. The Cambridge Library Collection will bring back to life books of enduring scholarly value across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and in science and technology. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 Fanny Kemble CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge New York Melbourne Madrid Cape Town Singapore São Paolo Delhi Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781108003933 © in this compilation Cambridge University Press 2009 This edition first published 1863 This digitally printed version 2009 ISBN 978-1-108-00393-3 This book reproduces the text of the original edition. The content and language reflect the beliefs, practices and terminology of their time, and have not been updated. RESIDENCE GEORGIAN PLANTATION. In the press, by the same Author, complete in One Volume, AN ENGLISH TEAGEDY: A PLAY, IN FIVE ACTS. MAEY STUART. TRAXS1ATKD FBOK SCHIL1EK, A PLAY. IN FIVE ACTS. MLLE. DE BELLISLE. TRANSLATED FROM DUMAS. A PLAY, IN FIVE ACTS. JOURNAL OP A RESIDENCE ON A GEORGIAN PLANTATION 1838 — 1839. BY FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE. SLAVEBY THE CHIET? CORiTKH STONE. 'This stone (Slavery), which was rejected by the first builders, is become the chief stone of the corner in our new edifice.'—Speech of ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, Vice-President of the Confederate States: delivered March 21,1861. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. 1863. TO ELIZABETH DWIGHT SEDGWICK THIS JOURNAL, OBIGIN ALLY KEPT FOE HER, IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

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A few years after her marriage to a wealthy American, the English stage-actress Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893) moved with her husband to his residence in Georgia, where he had inherited two plantations. There she kept a journal of her shocking observations of the practice of slavery. Written over a
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