 The native character of the black race under the slave system is toned down rather than changed. We find among the slaves all those idiosyncrasies which distinguish the negro type in its native land. Superstitious, excitable, imaginative, given to exaggeration,...  Maum Guinea, and her plantation 'children'. - الصفحة 5بواسطة Metta Victoria Victor - 1861عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...the African in the drama of civilization. In writing of the race, I have sought to depict it to thtf life. Seizing upon the Christmas Holidays as the moment...and individual peculiarities, I have drawn with a free, but I feel that it is a perfectly just, band. There will, indeed, be found so much that is real... | |
 | John Herbert Nelson - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 156
...sane and pertinent comment that one wonders how it could have been penned in the turbulent year 1861 : Negro life, as developed on the American Plantations,...and individual peculiarities, I have drawn with a free, but I feel that it is a perfectly just, hand. . . . "Maum Guinea" has not been written to subserve... | |
 | Mason Stokes - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...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... | |
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