slave-mother

He deals very little with the pathetic, which he nevertheless knows very well how to manage, as he has shown, notably in the true story of the old slave-mother; but there is a poetic lift in his work, even when he permits you to recognize it only as something satirized.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The true heart in Maine _cannot_ know that the slave-mother in Georgia is weeping for her children, torn from her arms by avarice, without feeling her anguish palpitating in its inmost core.

Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Various

O, slave-mother, hope! see -- the nation is shaking!

The Liberty Minstrel George W. Clark

There were signs and tokens of various kinds which the working slaves well understood, whatever this child of a slave-mother may have made of them.

From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington

Lizzie, the white slave-mother, of whom we have already spoken, created as much of a sensation by the fairness of her complexion and the alabaster whiteness of her child, when being conveyed on shore at New

Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown

The slave-mother had often come to visit her, and had actually got to love the child, and when it died she was heartbroken.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

His children were bondmen, like himself; even the freeman's children by a slave-mother inherited the mother's taint.

The Customs of Old England

The poor slave-mother heard him, and strained her baby to her bosom, as if she would say, "You shall _never_ take him from me."

Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Various

She could also understand why the natives threw away infants whose slave-mother died.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Suddenly a warm ray fell upon the face of the sleeping slave-mother.

Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) Various