slave-parents

Updated: May 23, 2025

Born of slave-parents, she had not reached her eighteenth year, when she was sold by auction in the Southern States of America. He was quite right: no better wife and mother ever lived. The one vestige of good feeling that I still possess, lives in my empty heart when I dwell at times on the memory of my mother. "My good fortune followed me when I was sent to school.

Wilkie Collins - The Guilty River

At last a little collection of these verses reached William Dean Howells, and Mr. Dunbar's star at once became ascendant. He is said to be a full-blooded Negro, the son of slave-parents, and his best work is in the dialect of his race. A volume of his poems is soon to be published by Dodd, Mead & Co. and in an introduction to it Mr. Howells writes as follows: "What struck me in reading Mr.

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