"Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—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."
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863).
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Fanny Kemble
Fanny Kemble (November 27, 1809 – 1893) was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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