self-improve

Updated: August 18, 2026

Every leisure moment was carefully applied to self-improve- ment, and a devout and Christian exterior in- vited confidence from the villagers. Thus she passed months of quiet, growing in the confi- dence of her neighbors and new found friends. Nothing new under the sun.

Harriet E. Wilson - Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North : Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there