Investigator Ch 1-4

I found it very interesting that Sarah and France's mother was an English actress, and was only allowed to see her children only twice a year. I questioned why did their mother marry their father, if she had such strong feelings against slavery? I did a little research about actress Fanny Kemble and about her marriage to Pierce Butler. Fanny came from a famous theatrical family and in 1832 she toured the US. She was a very independent woman and had strong beliefs about anti-slavery. She married Pierce Butler in 1834 whom was a Philadelphia native, but inherited his family's Georgia plantation only after their two daughters were born. In 1838 they traveled south to inspect their new land and 1000 slaves, and she was shocked by their living conditions. She kept a one year account recording the horror's of slavey, and published her observations in "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation." Her work was praised by abolitionists and union supports across the country. She left the south in 1839; the couple divorced in 1849. She continued acting to support herself and writing against slavery. She never remarried.