Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1863 - 337 páginas Fanny Kemble was a famous British actress. She married Pierce Butler in 1834 and moved to Georgia with her husband when he inherited a plantation from his grandfather. This diary was recorded during her stay on the plantation and was circulated among abolitionists prior to the Civil War. The diary was published in both England and America after the outbreak of the war. She left her husband in the Spring of 1839 and they were divorced in 1849. She returned to England in 1877 where she remained until her death. |
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... usual resources and amusements of civ- ilized existence , I shall find but little to communicate to you that is not furnished by my observations on the novel appearance of external nature , and the moral and physical condition of Mr.'s ...
... usual resources and amusements of civ- ilized existence , I shall find but little to communicate to you that is not furnished by my observations on the novel appearance of external nature , and the moral and physical condition of Mr.'s ...
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... usual with these people as with the low Irish , and arises from the ignorant desire , common to both the races , of propi- tiating at all costs the fellow - creature who is to them as a Providence- or rather , I should say , a fate ...
... usual with these people as with the low Irish , and arises from the ignorant desire , common to both the races , of propi- tiating at all costs the fellow - creature who is to them as a Providence- or rather , I should say , a fate ...
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... usual train of pleadings - happiness , tenderness , care , indulgence , etc. , etc. , etc. — all the substitutes that may or may not be put in the place of justice , and which these slaveholders attempt to persuade others , and per ...
... usual train of pleadings - happiness , tenderness , care , indulgence , etc. , etc. , etc. — all the substitutes that may or may not be put in the place of justice , and which these slaveholders attempt to persuade others , and per ...
Página 73
... usual , allowed this letter to lie by , dear E- not in the hope of the occurrence of any event— for that is hopeless - but until my daily avocations al- lowed me leisure to resume it , and afforded me , at the same time , matter ...
... usual , allowed this letter to lie by , dear E- not in the hope of the occurrence of any event— for that is hopeless - but until my daily avocations al- lowed me leisure to resume it , and afforded me , at the same time , matter ...
Página 89
... usual habits of Milesian good fellowship ; for , say the masters , the Irish hate the negroes more even than the Americans do , and there would be no bound to their murderous animosity if they were brought in contact with them on the ...
... usual habits of Milesian good fellowship ; for , say the masters , the Irish hate the negroes more even than the Americans do , and there would be no bound to their murderous animosity if they were brought in contact with them on the ...
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 Fanny Kemble Visualização integral - 1863 |
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, Volume 1 Fanny Kemble Visualização integral - 1863 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abolitionists afternoon allowed Altamaha appeared asked baby beautiful better blossoms boat Brunswick called certainly child church Cloth color condition cotton course curious Darien dear dear E degradation dikes dreadful evergreen existence feel fields filthy flogged FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE gardinias Georgia head human intelligent Irish island Israel Jack Jack rowed Khad labor land leave live look lovely manumission massa master means miserable missis Molly morning mulatto natural negress negroes neighbor never nigger Northern overseer owners perfectly planters poor creatures present race rattlesnakes residence rice plantation rice-island ride river rode round seems settlement sick Simon's slaveholders slavery slaves soil sort South Southern spect suppose swamp SYLVIA'S LOVERS tell thing thought tion to-day told trees utter walk whole wife wild woman women wonder woods wretched yesterday young
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Página 73 - A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another ; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Página 146 - I suppose the most degraded race of human beings claiming an Anglo-Saxon origin that can be found on the face of the earth...
Página 316 - ... entering the first of these? But half the casements, of which there were six, were glazed, and these were obscured with dirt, almost as much as the other windowless ones were darkened by the dingy shutters, which the shivering inmates had fastened to in order to protect themselves from the cold. In the enormous chimney glimmered the powerless embers of a few sticks of wood, round which, however, as many of the sick women as could approach were cowering, some on wooden settles, most of them on...
Página 105 - I reflect on the great means of good, to myself and ^Jjiers, that I so gladly agreed to give up forever for a maintenance by the unpaid labor of slaves — people toiling not only unpaid, but under the bitter conditions the bare contemplation of which was then wringing my heart. You will not wonder that when, in the midst of such cogitations, I suddenly accosted Mr. O , it was to this effect :
Página 112 - Presently the whole congregation uplifted their voices in a hymn, the first high wailing notes of which — sung all in unison, in the midst of these unwonted surroundings — sent a thrill through all my nerves.
Página 238 - Apparently the negro jargon has commended itself as euphonious to her infantile ears, and she is now treating me to the most ludicrous and accurate imitations of it every time she opens her mouth. Of course I shall not allow this, comical as it is, to become a habit. This is the way the Southern ladies acquire the thick and inelegant pronunciation which distinguishes their utterances from the Northern snuffle, and I have no desire that S should adorn her mother tongue with either peculiarity.
Página 176 - M up stairs keeping watch over them, and I sit writing this daily history for your edification, the door of the great barn-like room is opened stealthily, and one after another, men and women come trooping silently in, their naked feet falling all but inaudibly on the bare boards as they betake themselves to the hearth, where they squat down on their hams in a circle, the bright blaze from the huge pine logs, which is the only light of this half of the room, shining on their sooty limbs and faces,...