Minnie's Sacrifice - Paperback

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Author)

"That is poor Agnes' baby." "Agnes' baby? Why, I didn't know that Agnes had a baby. Do let me see it?" Tenderly the grandmother unfolded the wrappings, and presented the little stranger. He was a beautiful babe, whose golden hair, bright blue eyes and fair complexion showed no trace of the outcast blood in his veins. "Oh, how beautiful " said Camilla; "surely this can't be Agnes' baby. He is just as white as I am, and his eyes-what a beautiful blue-and his hair, why it is really lovely." "He is very pretty, Miss, but after all he is only a slave." A slave.