Chris Shea
Professor Christine Doyle
ENG 348
03/08/16
Analytical Response Paper #6
In her 1842 short story The Quadroons, Lydia Maria Child makes no attempts in hiding the fact that the mixed-race girl Xarifa has her life completely torn apart by men. In fact, by the final six paragraph of the story, she is even rounded up and sold into slavery despite the fact that she was actually a free person. This was because after the death of her father, papers were discovered claiming Xarifa was the granddaughter of a slave on her mother’s side (although Child also claims the mother Rosalie did not even know she was the daughter of a slave herself).
But it was not always this way for Xarifa. No, life was actually pretty nice for her throughout her childhood.