Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (2000)

Directors

James Keach

Cast

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Arlene Duncan, Colin Fox, Eugene Byrd, Gerard Parkes, Jackie Richardson, James Keach, Jane Seymour, Janet-Laine Green, Keith Carradine, Peter Mensah, Richard Yearwood

The story

Set in the nineteenth century, the film depicts the real-life story of British actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble. When Kemble leaves her successful acting career to marry American lawyer and slave owner Pierce Butler, she becomes horrified by the treatment of the enslaved people. Her efforts to improve the lives of her husband's slaves result in their eventual divorce and the loss of access to her two daughters.

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