Shadows Uplifted

In North Carolina, a group of escaped slaves joins up with a Union Army regiment. They share with the Union commander a story of an enslaved woman who, though born free, was stolen into servitude. Inspired, the commander embarks on a mission with the fugitives to liberate Iola. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted is a novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was an African American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, and novelist. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper became one of the first women of color to publish in the United States when her debut poetry collection Forest Leaves appeared in 1845. In 1850, she began to teach sewing at Union Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. The following year, alongside chairman of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society William Still, she began working as an abolitionist in earnest, helping slaves escape to Canada along the Underground Railroad. In 1854, having established herself as a prominent public speaker and political activist, Harper published Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, a resounding critical and commercial success. Over the course of her life, Harper founded and participated in several progressive organizations, including the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the National Association of Colored Women. At the age of sixty-seven, Harper published Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, becoming one of the first African American women to publish a novel.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Frances Ellen Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.01.2021
• EAN: 9781513271729
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-7172-9
• Seiten: 194
• Abmessung: 127 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 210 g
• Illustration: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Serien: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Black Narratives; Mint Editions (Black Narratives); Black Narratives
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Historical fiction, FICTION / Southern, FICTION / African American & Black / Women, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Relating to African American / Black American people