Minnie's Sacrifice

On a plantation in the South, a slave named Miriam mourns the death of her only daughter. Forced to give birth in their cabin, Agnes succumbed moments after her son entered the world. When Camilla, the master's daughter, discovers the light-skinned, blue-eyed boy, she convinces her father to send him north. Minnie's Sacrifice is a novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.