Minnie's Sacrifice By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an ...
Minnie's Sacrifice
Many African American women's service clubs named themselves in her honor, and across the nation, in cities such as St. Louis, St. Paul, and Pittsburgh, F. E. W. Harper Leagues and Frances E. Harper Women's Christian Temperance Unions ...
Even more so , there is a strong kinship between Minnie's Sacrifice and Iola Leroy . Minnie's Sacrifice is clearly a precursor of Iola Leroy . In many ways the two works complement each other . Minnie's Sacrifice focuses on the ...
... Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph, 9. 36. Quoted in Lewis, “Biracial Promise and the New South in Minnie's Sacrifice,” 758. 37. This point regarding a new episteme of creolization is the burden of Charles H ...
See Foster, ed., Minnie's Sacrifice. The following citations are drawn from this republished edition. There are parallels between Minnie's Sacrifice and Harper's later novel, Iola Leroy. See Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood, ch. 4. 55.
... Minnie's Sacrifice was published , he helped set the stage for its reception . Harper's story , then , was placed in ... Minnie's Sacrifice xxviii ) , about a range of issues -many of which were economic . This chapter traces the ...
... Minnie's Sacrifice, appeared serially in the Philadelphia-based Christian Recorder (published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church) in 1869—just one year after The Spanish Gypsy's publication. Minnie's Sacrifice tells the story of ...
desire that underlay some master/slave relations in America's historical and literary plantation myth, ... If such spectacles of the undead rising up to usher in the fall of the house of “America” are twice told tales within US history, ...
As in her later novel, in Minnie's Sacrifice Harper describes and reiterates her protagonists' shock at the revelation of their mixed ancestry and details their shift from a white to a black subject position.