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Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble was 29 years old, English, and famous. She came from Britain’s greatest theatrical family, packed houses in London and Philadelphia, and quit the stage in 1834 to marry Pierce Mease Butler, a charming Philadelphian she believed was simply rich. He was rich because his grandfather had built an empire in the Altamaha River delta: rice on Butler Island, Sea Island cotton at Hampton on St. Simons, corn and cattle at Woodville — and roughly 700 enslaved men, women, and children who made it all run...
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Something bizarre is happening in America. Two groups that should despise each other — hardcore Marxists and radical Islamists — are working together. They protest-march together. They fund each other. They elect each other to Congress. They call it “solidarity.” I call it a nefarious scheme to eradicate the United States.
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