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At a glance:
- Author: Harriet E. Adams
- First Published: 1859
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The mid-1800’s, before the Civil War
- Setting: Boston, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Girls, Power, personal or social, Biracial people, Nineteenth century, Interracial relationships, Marriage, Abandoned children, Poverty or poor people, Violence, Single parents or single-parent families, Death or dying, Boston, Servants, Cruelty
- Locales: Boston, MA
Characters Discussed
Frado, a pretty mulatto girl who, at the age of six, becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a middle-class white family. For the next twelve years, Frado’s life is brutal and unremittingly harsh. When she turns eighteen, the age of independence, Frado, frail and sickly from years of drudgery, leaves the Bellmonts. Starved for affection, she marries Samuel, the first black man who is kind to her. After Frado becomes pregnant, Samuel deserts her, leaving both mother and child dependent on charity. After Samuel dies of a fever, Frado, without hope of rescue,...
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