Fanny Kemble Quotes


...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.


Citations

Kemble, Frances Anne. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839. Harper & Brothers, 1863, p. 141.

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Rowan was primarily referring to the miscegenation that took place since Negro slavery in the Americas. Rape of slaves by white “masters” and their male relatives was common. In addition there have been interracial romantic relationships from the time Blacks were first in America. These have increased dramatically in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, he was slightly in error as he did not consider the origin of man, where science has traced the DNA of EVERY human on Earth back to a Black African female. Hence 100 percent of humans have “Negroid” blood in the sense that there has been inter-racial breeding in the past.


Millard and other racists ignorant of the human genome and science do not even realize that the thing they fear has already occurred tens of thousands of years ago. All humans, Blacks, Whites, Indians, Asians whatever all people alive today share the genes of Lucy, the oldest human discovered—she was Black and all other races as well as Blacks are descended from her and her contemporaries.


Fanny Kemble
Fanny Kemble
  • Born: November 27, 1809
  • Died: January 15, 1893
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Actress

Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre.