Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 18381839 Kemble Fanny Kemble Fanny 9781449940591 Books
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A passage from the book... My Dear E--. I return you Mr. --'s letter. I do not think it answers any of the questions debated in our last conversation at all satisfactorily the right one man has to enslave another, he has not the hardihood to assert; but in the reasons he adduces to defend that act of injustice, the contradictory statements he makes appear to me to refute each other. He says, that to the continental European protesting against the abstract iniquity of slavery, his answer would be, 'the slaves are infinitely better off than half the continental peasantry.' To the Englishman, 'they are happy compared with the miserable Irish.' But supposing that this answered the question of original injustice, which it does not, it is not a true reply. Though the negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freeman-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them. Ask the thousands of ragged destitutes who yearly land upon these shores to seek the means of existence-ask the friendless, penniless foreign emigrant, if he will give up his present misery, his future uncertainty, his doubtful and difficult struggle for life, at once, for the secure, and as it is called, fortunate dependance of the slave the indignation with which he would spurn the offer will prove that he possesses one good beyond all others, and that his birthright as a man is more precious to him yet than the mess of pottage for which he is told to exchange it because he is starving. Of course the reverse alternative cannot be offered to the slaves, for at the very word the riches of those who own them would make themselves wings and flee away.
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I'm not buying this book, much as I already love it, but why does make this stupid mistake of reversing Fanny Kemble's name? Her first name was Frances, she was the niece of the famous Sarah Siddons, a British actress, and she came to the US playing ingenues in Shakespeare. I have a first edition of the original book, published around the time of the Civil War. Can I sell it here?
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