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Minnie's Sacrifice
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Title: Minnie's Sacrifice
Author: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Release Date: February 12, 2004 [EBook #11053]
Language: English
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Transcriber's Note About the Author: Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland. Orphaned at three, she was raised by her uncle, a teacher and radical advocate for civil rights. She attended the Academy for Negro Youth and was educated as a teacher. She became a professional lecturer, activist, suffragette, poet, essayist, novelist, and the author of the first published short story written by an African-American. Her work spanned more than sixty years.
MINNIE'S SACRIFICE
A Rediscovered Novel by
Frances E.W. Harper
Edited By Frances Smith Foster
Chapter I
Miriam sat in her lowly cabin, painfully rocking her body to and fro; for a great sorrow had fallen upon her life. She had been the mother of three children, two had died in their infancy, and