Laura Ingalls’s dark hair is a trait that she shares with the other two protagonists Capitola Black and Jo March. Capitola is so dark that she is actually sold into slavery "Fifty–more or less, but strong, active, a good nurse and a very light mulatto,' says my willain's voice” (Southworth 24) and Jo March, who’s “very tall, thin and brown” (Alcott, LW 10). Laura is described as being “brown as an Indian” (Wilder, OBPC 143). Michelle Abate states that while Alcott, Southworth and Wilder are portrayed as “ostensibly Caucasian tomboys with brown skin and dark physical features,” which in turn links them to “various forms of nonwhiteness”, their dark skin differentiates them from their frail, feminine contemporaries who do not engage in “rambunctious
