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JOURNAL

OF

A RESIDENCE ON A

GEORGIAN PLANTATION

IN 1838-1839.

BY FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE.

SLAVERY THE CHIEF CORNER 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. STE-
PHENS, Vice-President of the Confederate States: delivered March 21, 1861.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, by

FRANCIS G. SHAW,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York

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ELIZABETH DWIGHT SEDGWICK,

THIS JOURNAL,

ORIGINALLY KEPT FOR HER,

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Medicated.