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Slavery: Protests and Slave Owners

Slavery: Protests and Slave Owners

Slavery: Something that happened “down South”—Right?

Not just “the South.” In fact, there were once slaves on the estate that included what is now La Salle’s campus, as is shown by the last wills and testaments of its late-seventeenth-century to mid-eighteenth-century Quaker owners. In those legal documents, they disposed of their copper frying pans, of their silver tankards, of their feather beds, of their livestock, and of the black people whom they owned.

This gallery highlights local connections to the Quaker protest of slavery, and explores the life of slave owner Pierce Butler, and his famous wife Frances Anne Kemble, residents of "Butler Place."

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  • Pierce Mease Butler, 1810-1867

    Pierce Mease Butler, 1810-1867

  • Frances Anne Kemble, 1809-1893

    Frances Anne Kemble, 1809-1893

  • Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation

    Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation

  • Actress, Playwright, Poet, Journal Writer

    Actress, Playwright, Poet, Journal Writer

  • Letter written from Butler Place by Frances Anne Kemble

    Letter written from Butler Place by Frances Anne Kemble

  • A Performance Starring Fanny Kemble

    A Performance Starring Fanny Kemble

  • The Largest Slave Sale in Georgia History

    The Largest Slave Sale in Georgia History

  • Butler Island Plantation

    Butler Island Plantation

  • First Protest Against Slavery

    First Protest Against Slavery

  • Charles Kemble, 1775-1854

    Charles Kemble, 1775-1854

  • Newington

    Newington

  • Slave Auction at the South: The Weeping Time

    Slave Auction at the South: The Weeping Time

  • Butler Place

    Butler Place

  • Owen Wister at Butler Place

    Owen Wister at Butler Place

  • Owen Wister’s The Virginian

    Owen Wister’s The Virginian

  • “Butler Place” Library

    “Butler Place” Library

 
 
 

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