Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (1999), fictionalised made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.
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Though they lived in Philadelphia, Butler was the grandson of the Founding Father Pierce Butler, and heir to a large fortune in cotton, tobacco and rice plantations.
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The Granite Railway was among many sights which she recorded in her journal.
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In 1834 she married an American, Pierce Mease Butler, heir to cotton, tobacco and rice plantations on the Sea Islands of Georgia, and to the hundreds of slaves who worked them.
In 1945, Henry Gibbs dedicated to Sokolova his book Affectionately Yours Fanny: Fanny Kemble and the Theatre (Jarrolds Publishers, London, 1945); she had helped him trace "authoritative material" (author's note, p. 8).
Poe refers to the writing of actress Fanny Kemble in this essay, saying it was she who first brought the beautiful area to people's attention in her "droll book" about the United States.
In 1833 Fanny Kemble, an English actress visiting Georgia, noted in her journal: "The slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as 'poor white trash'".
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The couple, who renewed their friendship with fellow patron Fanny Kemble, also dined there with Nathaniel Parker Willis and his wife during their stay.
A popular tragedian on the London stage, he appeared with many leading actors of his day, including William Charles Macready, Edwin Booth and Fanny Kemble and was well known for his Shakespearean and melodrama roles in Britain, the U.S. and Australia.