# Minnie's Sacrifice

Author: Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911; Foster, Frances Smith [Editor]

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11053

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Minnie%27s+Sacrifice+Harper&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Miriam sat in her lowly cabin, painfully rocking her body to and fro; for a great sorrow had fallen upon her life. She had been the mother of three children, two had died in their infancy, and now her last, her loved and only child was gone, but not like the rest, who had passed away almost as soon as their little feet had touched the threshold of existence. She had been entangled in the mazes of sin and sorrow; and her sun had gone down in darkness. It was the old story. Agnes, fair, young and beautiful, had been a slave, with no power to protect herself from the highest insults that brutality could offer to innocence. Bound hand and foot by that system, which has since gone down in wrat...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/minnie-s-sacrifice-11053/chapters/9/index.md)