My rating:
add to my books
Loading...
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation
Kemble, a British actress and authoress, was introduced to American slavery with her marriage to Pierce Butler, grandson of one of the largest slaveholders in Georgia. When Butler came into his inheritance, he and his new wife moved to their plantation, where Kemble quickly became appalled at the cruelty of the peculiar institution.In her most popular book, Journal of a Re...more
Paperback, 268 pages
Published
October 15th 2007
by Cosimo Classics
(first published 1863)
There is a good chance some of your friends read this book. Sign in to see!
sign in »
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is currently not featured on any Listopia lists.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
60)
This is NOT the edition I have, but it has the same ISBN number, so what can you do? My copy has a brown cover with a different picture.
Early in this book, the author dismisses Harriet Martineau's argument that the growing mechanization of agriculture would eventually result in the end of plantation slavery. But Martineau was wrong in timing, not in means. Realistically, once the slaves were formally freed, their life conditions didn't change much in most cases--sharecropping is n...more
Early in this book, the author dismisses Harriet Martineau's argument that the growing mechanization of agriculture would eventually result in the end of plantation slavery. But Martineau was wrong in timing, not in means. Realistically, once the slaves were formally freed, their life conditions didn't change much in most cases--sharecropping is n...more
This is one of those books that I'm glad I read, but was glad to be finished with. Before I read it, I knew that Kemble was a British actress who spent a winter on a Georgia plantation before the Civil War, but I didn't know the whole story, which was only slowly revealed in the text. (A little web research clarified a lot of points for me.) Kemble married an American man who subsequently inherited two plantations, on Butler Island and St. Simons Island. Kemble suddenly found, to her horror,...more
http://nhw.livejournal.com/588685.html[return][return]Published in 1863, this is a series of letters from Kemble to her friend E[lizabeth Sedgwick] describing her four months as the wife of a Georgian plantation owner, and going into considerable detail about the living conditions of the slaves. It is horrific stuff, an eloquent argument against slavery, published twenty-five years after the event in a deliberate attempt to undermine British sympathy for the Confederacy in the middle of the Civi...more
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,
click here.
Readable, particularly since the diary entries were written before the civil war. It gives new meaning to what slavery did to the South as well as the those under the lash. I read it for information on plantations, excluding the use of slaves.
After having read this, my father-in-law took it up on a visit. He wasn't finished when it was his time to leave so I gave it to him. When I started rebuilding my library I decided I had to purchase it again. I never really fully understood the horrors of slavery until I read this book. Frances Anne Kemble was an amazing and brave woman.
Loved the way she wrote, made it seem like I was right there on the plantation. Absolutely appalled how the slaves were treated.
Brilliant first-hand writing of the evils of slavery by an English woman who married a southern plantation owner.
Eye-opening account of life on a plantation in Southern Georgia. The author is a plantation-owners wife who sympathizes with the slaves working on her husband's plantation and actually later in life fights for abolition. Not a fun or easy read, but the best representation of real life in the South I've ever experienced. Once required reading by schools - it should be still!
Rachael
rated it
·
review of another edition
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Gina and Michelle
Shelves:
non-fiction
I thought this an interesting read- a bit slow in some parts.
Gina and michelle should really enjoy this listing. Remember our road trip? :)
Gina and michelle should really enjoy this listing. Remember our road trip? :)
view all 3 comments
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
