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A Scandalized Virgin and a Lost-Noned Boy
A streetcar ride brings William Green Hill to Miss Minerva's Mississippi mansion where a stern aunt confronts a child raised among enslaved people. The scene reveals tensions of race, kinship, and reform as Minerva plans strict, corrective upbringing while William longs for his familiar world and Aunt Cindy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minerva
Sam Lamb
William
Billy
William Green Hill
Cussin
Jimmy-Jawed
Jup'ter
Cindy
Elly
Wilkes Booth Lincoln
Teller
Blue- Gum Tempy
Mount Sinai Tabernacle
Peruny Pearline
Thessalonians
Peruny Pearlife
Tryeburg
Biddle-&-Brothers- Mercantile-Co
Jenkins
Shacklefoot
Israel
Peruny Pearline Firs
Decimus Ultimus
Aunt Minerva