Poems
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A collection of poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the nineteenth-century African American poet and abolitionist, addressing themes of slavery, freedom, faith, and social reform. Suited to readers of American poetry and African American literary history.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.
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