Sugar Babe: A Sketch of Plantation Life in the Seventies
Sugar Babe: A Sketch of Plantation Life in the Seventies
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Privately printed in 1940 by George Grady Press, New York. Hardcover book and dust jacket in good condition. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean with no writing or highlights. Top of textblock has age spots. Dust jacket has wear and fading along edges and spine.Sugar Babe is a true story, tenderly told – the story of a negro girl who was the plantation playmate of Mrs. Saffold's childhood. It is appropriate that this little book should come off the press now at Christmas time, for it holds a message of quiet peace and goodwill toward mankind. No mention of the book would be complete without a word about the illustrations, which add so much to its charm. The photographs depicting various scenes and characters in the story were made at Mrs. Saffold's childhood home. The pen and ink sketches were made under the supervision of the author. The artist, Fritz Eichenberg, is now teaching wood-engraving and illustration at the New School for Social Research, having come to this country from Germany in 1933. He is a member of the American Artist Congress and the American Institute of the Graphic Arts, and has illustrated many other books both here and abroad.
"Mrs. Saffold has written a character sketch and biography of a negro girl of the Black Belt, and given a graphic account of plantation life in the South of the seventies...The author traces the history of her subject from the cradle to the grave, giving us a study in character and personality which is unusually meritorious."
"The little girl portrayed is the author's really, truly childhood playmate, and her story is charmingly painted with a brush, which dipped in sincerity, brings its unfailing appeal."
