Melanie Darkinboddy/Rebecca L. Williams
My blogs
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Melanie Darkinboddy, an American Negro: A Tale of Race, Cookies, and Theft captures the world of a fictional Northern black child born on July 16, 1857. Her earliest reminiscences begin with the conflagration that engulfed the Colored Orphans Asylum during the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, the worst civil disturbance in American history. Forced to become self-reliant at the age of six, Melanie’s memoir of survival and strength portrays, with humor and pathos, the joys and struggles of a young black child who would go on to become one of the most prominent African American entrepreneurs of the fin de siècle. |
| Favorite Movies | Within Our Gates |
| Favorite Books | Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, Forest Leaves, Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, The Scarlet Letter, The Wide, Wide World, Moby Dick, Uncle Tom's Cabin Bleak House, The Heroic Slave, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, Our Nig, Great Expectations, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Les Miserables, Little Women, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Germinal, Trial and Triumph, Iola Leroy, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow of Tradition |