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Despite Hannah's pleas, the young woman is returned to the status of house slave, but she is sold to the Wheelers. She describes Mrs. Wheeler as a vain, self-centered woman. At one time, her husband serves as the United States Minister to Nicaragua. (This was one of the details that led to tracing Crafts as a slave held by John Hill Wheeler.)
Octavia Rogers Albert (December 24, 1853 – August 19, 1889) was an African-American author and biographer. [1] [2] She documented slavery in the United States through a collection of interviews with formerly enslaved people in her book The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, which was posthumously published in 1890.
House of Secrets is a 2013 children's novel by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini. [1] The book was first published on April 23, 2013, through Balzer + Bray and is the first book in the House of Secrets series. The book follows the three Walker family children as they attempt to find a secret book and rescue their parents in the process.
The Book of Secrets is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 1994. It was the winner of the first Giller Prize for Canadian fiction. Vassanji also became the award's first-ever repeat winner in 2003 for his novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall .
The House of Secrets, a 1963 novel by Nina Bawden; House of Secrets, a 1971 novel by Rosemary Timperley; A House of Secrets, a 1991 novel by Patti Davis; House of Secrets, a 1994 novel by Jean Saunders, writing as Sally Blake; House of Secrets, a 1995 novel by James A. Moore and Kevin Andrew Murphy; House of Secrets, a 1996 novel by Beverly Lewis
Sab is regarded by some scholars as an anti-slavery novel, and some have also suggested that it criticizes the institution of marriage. [ citation needed ] The novel was written a decade before Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin .
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Harriet Jacobs [a] (1813 or 1815 [b] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".