Frances E. W. Harper

Iola Leroy

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Frances E. W. Harper



This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was …

Trial and Triumph

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Frances E. W. Harper



This novel, like two other novels that Harper serialized in The Christian Recorder, sets forth the principles which make for a meaningful, m…

Minnie's Sacrifice

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Frances E. W. Harper



Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…

Poems

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Frances E. W. Harper



Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an influential female African American poet. Her poetry often deals with themes of freedom, discrimination,…

Sowing and Reaping

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Frances E. W. Harper



This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and us…

The Crocuses

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Frances E. W. Harper



Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of socia…

Going East

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Frances E. W. Harper



LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Going East by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 2…