Fanny Kemble Butler was a remarkable woman. She was the English stage-actress, who married Pierce Butler, a wealthy member of Philadelphia society with possessions in the South. He courted her with such persistence that she finally agreed to give up her career and become his wife. They moved to Butler’s residence in Georgia, where he owned two plantations. There she became a witness of awful slavery practice. Shocked with all her observations Fanny kept a journal, where she wrote down all her impressions .Written over a period of about than four months, Kemble's journal has the records of her everyday encounters with husband's slaves, and attempts to reveal the moral injustice of slavery. The journal was read only by Fanny’s friends, and was not published until 1863. Kemble's journal still is a lasting and important critique of slavery, and an important document about the 19th American south.