""Alexander Gifford Or Vi'let's Boy: A Story of Negro Life"" is a novel written by Henry A. Merrill. The book tells the story of Alexander Gifford, a young African American boy, who is taken from his mother and sold into slavery. He is then bought by a kind woman named Vi'let, who raises him as her own son. The story follows Alexander's life as he grows up and faces the challenges of living as a black person in the United States during the 19th century...