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Fanny White
Fanny White, a.k.a. Jane Augusta Blankman (March 22, 1823 – October 12, 1860) was one of the most successful courtesans of ante-bellum New York City. Known for her beauty, wit, and business acumen, White accumulated a significant fortune over the course of her career, married a middle-class lawyer in her thirties, and died suddenly a year later. Rumors that White had been poisoned caused a public outcry, which forced an inquest into her death.
Early life.
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Fanny Kemble, an English actress married to an American planter in the antebellum era, wrote about what she saw as the disgrace of elite white fathers abandoning their mixed-race children in her "Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839". She did not publish the book until 1863.
In the antebellum years, not all white fathers abandoned their children by slave or free black mistresses. Some lived in common-law relationships with slave women,