
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.

as Fanny Kemble Butler

as Pierce Butler

as Joe

as Elizabeth Sedgwick

as Dr. Huston

as Harriet

as Jack

as Psyche

as Owen Parker

as Charles Kemble

as Young Sarah

as Sam Swift

as Julia

as Brutus

as Daphne

as Quaka

as Esther

as Aunt Jerusalem

as John Quincy Adams

as Daniel Webster

as Habersham