troversy

Updated: July 16, 2026

She had not gained their affections by winning ways and yielding points of con- troversy. On the contrary, she was self-willed, domineering; every day reported "mad" by some of her companions. She availed herself of the only alternative, abuse and taunts, as they returned from school. This was not satis- factory; she wanted to use physical force "to subdue her," to "keep her down."

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