Sublime

ignoble,

Louisa May Alcott. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Sarah Orne Jewett. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman doctor in America, who started her practice to provide medical care to freed slaves after the Civil War.

‘History, my child, is the most powerful motive of all.’ Aunt Maria rested her hand gently on Scarlet’s shoulder. ‘Now, I’m afraid, we must leave.’

power of mother-love,

"I never saw a forest so petted,

This is the true and exact account of the Great Cigar Fraud, and the moral of it is this–that civilisation is founded upon abstractions.

Since slave women were classified as ‘breeders’ as opposed to ‘mothers’, their infant children could be sold away from them like calves from cows. One year after the importation of Africans was halted, a South Carolina court ruled that female slaves had no legal claims whatever on their children. Consequently, according to this ruling, children