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Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

6.8 120 mins Drama   TV Movie   2000
Catfish Productions   LXD Inc.   Showtime Networks  
Director(s): James Keach

Release Date: 23 Sun, Apr 2000

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.

Casts of Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

Jane Seymour

as Fanny Kemble Butler

Keith Carradine

as Pierce Butler

Janet-Laine Green

as Elizabeth Sedgwick

James Keach

as Dr. Huston

Arlene Duncan

as Harriet

Eugene Byrd

as Jack

Sharon Washington

as Psyche

Brett Porter

as Owen Parker

Gerard Parkes

as Charles Kemble

Kayla Perlmutter

as Young Sarah

Bernard Browne

as Sam Swift

Catherine Hayos

as Julia

Rick Demas

as Brutus

Jackie Richardson

as Daphne

Peter Mensah

as Quaka

Esther Cañadas

as Esther

Lili Francks

as Aunt Jerusalem

Colin Fox

as John Quincy Adams

François Klanfer

as Daniel Webster

Richard Yearwood

as Habersham

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