[PDF] Fanny Kembles Civil Wars eBook

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195148152

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Now available in paperback is the story of Fanny Kemble, whose passionate writings against human bondage made her a heroine of the Union cause. 54 halftones & line illustrations.

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Actors
ISBN : 0684844141

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A biography of the British stage star turned plantation mistress, whose abolitionist writings made her an unlikely heroine of the Union cause--and whose life intersected in bold and dramatic ways with the most tumultuous of American conflicts, the Civil War. 64 illustrations.

Author : Fanny Kemble
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674039475

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Henry James called Fanny Kemble's autobiography "one of the most animated autobiographies in the language." Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to her essays, poetry, plays, and a novel, Kemble published six works of memoir, eleven volumes in all, covering her life, which began in the first decade of the nineteenth century and ended in the last. Her autobiographical writings are compelling evidence of Kemble's wit and talent, and they also offer a dazzling overview of her transatlantic world. Kemble kept up a running commentary in letters and diaries on the great issues of her day. The selections here provide a narrative thread tracing her intellectual development-especially her views on women and slavery. She is famous for her identification with abolitionism, and many excerpts reveal her passionate views on the subject. The selections show a life full of personal tragedy as well as professional achievements. An elegant introduction provides a context for appreciating Kemble's remarkable life and achievements, and the excerpts from her journals allow her, once again, to speak for herself.

Author : Anne C. Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1108141218

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In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.

Author : Cornelia Jones Pond
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820320441

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The first unabridged publication of the memoirs of Cornelia Jones Pond, a privileged child of a slaveholding family in Georgia, follws her life from her birth into the antebellum world of 1834, through the apocalyptic Civil War, and beyond. UP.

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1984-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0394722531

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This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.

Author : Malcolm Bell, Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820323950

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Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In Major Butler's Legacy, Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of this century and includes in its course such figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, Fanny Kemble, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister.

Author : Frances Butler Leigh
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2024-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385338123

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.