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Historical Romance of the American Negro

Charles H. Fowler

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015-03-04
主題	Fiction / Classics
ISBN	15055079799781505507973
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B8dXrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"[...]Jackson; but my own mother, a woman of uncommon beauty, belonged to the colored race. My mother, for some cause or other, was sold down the river in New Orleans, in the year 1853, when I was but fifteen years of age. I never got over that sudden separation, and I at once formed my own resolutions, of which I said nothing. As my father was a rich man, who indulged me in many ways and appeared to love me, and as I often had occasion to accompany him and Mrs. Jackson, or some of the other members of the family, to Louisville, he seldom refused to give me the cash I asked for, which I now began to carefully put away in a secret place only[...]".