Quote#Freedom
As for the exhortation with which Mr. ------ closes his letter, that…
Quote byFrances Anne Kemble · 1809–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863)..
English (original)
As for the exhortation with which Mr. ------ closes his letter, that I will not "go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there," I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.
— Frances Anne Kemble
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