Poems
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Description
Frances E. W. Harper published her Poems in 1895, and the Black Heritage Library Collection reissued the volume for later generations. Harper, born free in Baltimore, became one of the most famous African American writers of the nineteenth century. An abolitionist lecturer, suffragist, and temperance leader whose poetry carried her politics into homes that lectures could not reach. An epigraph from Isaiah promises the forsaken a joy of many generations.
Contents mix the personal and the public: My Mother's Kiss beside the Dying Bondman. A Grain of Sand beside a Double Standard, her sharp poem on the different moral rules for men and women. Bible stories, temperance appeals, and race pride share the pages. Harper wrote for a people emerging from slavery, and her poems, plain, musical, and unflinching, were recited in churches and schools across Black America.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 87 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |