Originally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble\'s ``Journal`` has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the ``peculiar institution`` and of life in the antebellum South.
During a tour of America in the 1830s she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce B.
Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century.
Originally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble\'s ``Journal`` has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the ``peculiar institution`` and of life in the antebellum South
