Minnie's Sacrifice

audiobook

Minnie's Sacrifice

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

EN·~2 hours·20 chapters

Chapters

20 total
1

Chapter I

11:09
2

Chapter II

12:26
3

Chapter III

6:57
4

Chapter IV

5:51
5

Chapter V

9:03
6

Chapter VI

8:23
7

Chapter VII

6:49
8

Chapter VIII

13:35
9

Chapter IX

5:29
10

Chapter X

0:01

Description

In the quiet, dim cabin of a Southern plantation, Miriam endures a grief that feels like an endless night. After losing her own children, she is confronted with a newborn—Agnes’s baby—whose strikingly white features clash painfully with his status as a slave. The child's presence awakens both sorrow and a flicker of hope, drawing the attention of Camilla, the master's daughter, who dreams of protecting the infant from the brutal reality of his birth.

Camilla’s privileged world collides with the harshness of the plantation, and she becomes determined to shield the child as if he were her own. Her resolve sets her against the entrenched laws and expectations that bind the enslaved, while Miriam watches the fragile possibility of salvation with cautious doubt. As tensions rise, the story explores the moral complexities of compassion, ownership, and the desperate yearning to rewrite a fate written in oppression.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~2 hours (162K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-02-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

1825–1911

A powerful 19th-century voice for freedom and equality, she wrote poetry, fiction, and speeches that reached wide audiences across the United States. Her work joins moral clarity with warmth, making her an essential figure in American literature and reform.

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