Аннотация

The article focuses on the perceptions of Jacksonian America by the famous English actress Fanny Kemble (Butler) who toured with great success in the major cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston in the early 1830s. In 1834 she had left the stage and a married Southern planter. In 1838-1839 she visited his plantations in Georgia and was the eyewitness of awful realities of slavery. Fanny Kemble had published two «Journals» of her residence in America which became important sources of American past.