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Hannah concludes that "each one was conscious of some great and important secret on the part of the other." In the coming weeks, after observing her new mistress lock herself away most of the day, Hannah comes to learn that the old man is Mr. Trappe, a crooked lawyer who has discovered that the mistress is a fair-skinned mulatto who is passing ...
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.
James Henry Hammond (November 15, 1807 – November 13, 1864) was an American attorney, politician, and planter.He served as a United States representative from 1835 to 1836, the 60th Governor of South Carolina from 1842 to 1844, and a United States senator from 1857 to 1860.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
The Known World is a historical novel by American author Edward P. Jones, published in 2003.Set in antebellum Virginia, the novel explores the complex and morally ambiguous world of slavery, focusing on the unusual phenomenon of black enslavers.
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; House of Secrets, a 2013 novel by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini; The House of Secrets, a 2016 novel by Tod Goldberg and Brad Meltzer; The House of ...
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it also deals with serious social issues of education for women, passing, miscegenation, abolition, reconstruction, temperance, and social ...