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In 1929 Kemble wrote that his work on Huck was the first time he had done "Negro drawings"; in fact, however, he was already known for the caricatures of African Americans he drew to accompany "The Thompson Street Poker Club," a regular feature in Life.
One reason Kemble's illustrations are important is that they can help us try to understand how MT's original readers "saw" the African American characters in the novel.
Kemble could only afford to pay one model to pose for all the characters in the novel.
The British actress and writer Fanny Kemble's infamous entanglement with Georgia began in the 1830s when she married Pierce Mease Butler, who in 1836 inherited his grandfather's legacy, including hundreds of slaves and several plantations on the Sea Islands.
As the wife of a planter, Kemble had unimpeded access to plantation affairs and was especially poignant and pointed when she allowed the voices of slave women, so seldom heard during this era, to shine through in the pages of her journal.
Kemble's battles with Butler over harsh treatment of slaves contributed to the couple's permanent impasse, which resulted in marital separation in 1845 and a divorce in 1849.
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