It tore her world apart.
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
James Keach
Director
Christopher Lofton
Writer
Jane Seymour
Fanny Kemble Butler
Keith Carradine
Pierce Butler
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Joe
Janet-Laine Green
Elizabeth Sedgwick
James Keach
Dr. Huston
Arlene Duncan
Harriet
Eugene Byrd
Jack
Sharon Washington
Psyche
Brett Porter
Owen Parker
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