The Shadow
- ISBN-10
- 1543153046
- ISBN-13
- 9781543153040
- Series
- The Shadow
- Pages
- 396
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-02-16
- Author
- Mary Ovington
Description
The story of a beautiful southern girl of aristocratic family, whom a strange fate has placed in childhood on the doorstep of an African American cabin, and whom fate again sends into the white world when she discovers the secret of her birth. "A novel of extraordinary interest...This is not a book of propaganda, but a story of deep, human interest and passionate sympathy." - The Crisis "Catches one's interest from the start, for its opening scenes laid in the South tell of a little baby, who, born out of wedlock, was taken by its grandmother and deposited on the doorstep of the cabin of a colored family. Thus, for many years the identify of the girl was hidden and she grew up believing herself possessed of colored blood, while all the time she was a young aristocrat. Later, when through the will of her dead grandfather, it is discovered that she is white, she leaves her Negro settlement and goes to New York. As the dramatic story develops there are finely contrasted pictures of the Negro at home and abroad and of the white man, big and little, in his great home as well as in the workshop and the factory, and the heroine meets people of many shades and color of disposition and heart before the satisfying climax is reached." -The Bookseller, January, 1920 "In no recent book has the American Negro's problem been more sympathetically treated. Miss Ovington succeeds throughout in treating them as individuals rather than as racial types, and does so with a simple and unselfconscious realism." -The Freeman "A novel which, because of the author's knowledge of the Negro race and its problems is interesting to read." -Wisconsin Library Bulletin
