Frances kemble
Abstract Sixty miles south of Gowrie, and athwart Georgia’s Altamaha River, lay a rice plantation which gained notoriety in 1859 through the well-publicized, two-day auction of hundreds of its slaves, reported at length in the New York Tribune. Permanent fame came to Butler Island four years later w...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1996
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090215.003.0007 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/51981075/isbn-9780195090215-book-part-7.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Sixty miles south of Gowrie, and athwart Georgia’s Altamaha River, lay a rice plantation which gained notoriety in 1859 through the well-publicized, two-day auction of hundreds of its slaves, reported at length in the New York Tribune. Permanent fame came to Butler Island four years later when a remarkable Englishwoman, Frances Kemble, published her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. The estate described by Kemble was indirectly connected to Charles Manigault’s family: for a favorite niece of Charles’s, Gabriella Manigault Morris (Butler), was married to its coproprietor, John Butler of Philadelphia.1 In 1834 the actress Frances Kemble-a younger member of Britain’s foremost acting family-had ruined her life by marrying the other proprietor, Pierce Butler, thus setting the stage for her traumatic confrontation with life on a Georgia rice plantation (see genealogical table 16). |
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