"Wid de awful work en de lashin's," Roxy tells Tom she became "so downhearted en misable" on the plantation that she feels "life war n't wuth noth'n' to me." But then, in a scene which recalls the sentimental abolitionism of someone like Stowe, Roxy mentions "a little sickly nigger wench 'bout ten year ole." She "had n't no mammy, po' thing, en I loved her en she loved me."
The Barrett Collection, UVA PS 1317 .A1 1894