...the African in the drama of civilization. In writing of the race, I have sought to depict it to the life. Seizing upon the Christmas Holidays as the moment...and individual peculiarities, I have drawn with a firm, but I feel that it is a perfectly just, hand. There will, indeed, be found so much that is real...

...the African in the drama of civilization. In writing of the race, I have sought to depict it to the life. Seizing upon the Christmas holidays as the moment...with a free, but I feel that it is a perfectly just, hand. . . . "Maum Guinea" has not been written to subserve any special social or political purpose....

...second of her two major introductory ideas: the use of romance to represent "reality." She writes: "Seizing upon the Christmas Holidays as the moment...fullest play, I have been enabled, in the guise of romance, to reproduce the slave, in all his varied relations, with historical truthfulness. His joys...