Books are sold at the Midway Museum’s bookstore (same hours as the Museum). Because this is a unique selection, and many of the books are no longer easily findable on the market, prices and availability vary. To order books sent to you, call the Museum during business hours at 912-884-5837 or use our book list (here) to send an inquiry email to our staff.
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (by Frances Anne Kemble)
Edited by John A. Scott
In the 1830’s, famous British actress Fanny Kemble married Pierce Butler, the grandson of a wealthy coastal Georgia plantation owner. After their marriage, she spent several months living on the plantation, and her shock at the living conditions of the family’s enslaved African Americans led both to her eventual divorce from Butler and this memoir, which influenced the British abolitionist movement. Highly readable, descriptive, and moving, this memoir is a contemporaneous window into 1830’s coastal Georgia culture.
