Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
2 Bücher
- You spend time with Iola as slavery tears apart her family and as she turns painful experience into clear-eyed work for Black education and independence. The novel can be openly didactic and melodramatic, but its arguments about race, womanhood, and self-respect still have real force.
- Harper read these aloud on abolitionist lecture circuits, and it shows: The Slave Auction and Bury Me in a Free Land are built to be heard and to hurt. The later Aunt Chloe poems add a freedwoman's wit to the fire.