A woman with modernist sensibility for freedom and women's rights, Fanny, was one of the most famous woman writers of her time, a friend of Henry James who praised her autobiographical work. She was passionately against slavery in the South, but brought into it by her plantation owning husband. She left with her 6 children. Her gritty descriptions of her times and miserable slave life will engrave themselves on your mind and expand your picture of the world at that time.

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