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1825–1911 · American writer
Also known as: Frances Harper, Frances E. W. Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, Frances Watkins Harper, Фрэнсис Харпер, فرانسيس هاربر
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Pauline Hopkins1859–1930ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetPost-Reconstruction novels of racial uplift, mixed-race heroines and family reunion closely parallel Iola Leroy. (AI reason)
Paul Laurence Dunbar1872–1906ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetNineteenth-century African American lyric and narrative poetry addressing slavery, faith and Black life. (AI reason)
Phillis Wheatley1753–1784ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEarly African American women's poetry blending piety, neoclassical form and antislavery sentiment. (AI reason)
Harriet Jacobs1815–1897ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetNarrative of enslaved womanhood exposing slavery's sexual and familial cruelties for a moral-reform readership. (AI reason)
Harriet E. Wilson1825–1900ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEarly novel by a Black woman depicting racism and servitude through sentimental fiction conventions. (AI reason)
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William Wells Brown1814–1884ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetAbolitionist fiction like Clotel exploring the tragic mulatta theme and slavery's moral corruption. (AI reason)
Frederick Douglass1818–1895ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetAbolitionist narrative and oratory sharing the same rhetorical aims of freedom and justice. (AI reason)
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSentimental antislavery fiction appealing to Christian conscience and the sanctity of family. (AI reason)
Charles Chesnutt1858–1932ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFiction examining the color line, passing and Reconstruction-era racial politics. (AI reason)
Anna J. Cooper1858–1964ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEssays advocating Black women's education and rights in a voice of moral uplift. (AI reason)
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- Scarlet Letter with Connections
- Three classic African-American novels
- Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (1969)
- The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 (1970)
- A brighter coming day (1990)