The Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote to be heard, and these poems carry the plain force of a woman who spent her life speaking against slavery and injustice. Gathered here are verses on bondage and freedom, faith, motherhood, and the moral duties she believed a nation owed its people, including the often quoted 'Bury Me in a Free Land.' Written in clear, hymn-like measures meant for recitation, the poems reached wide audiences at abolitionist meetings and in the Black press of nineteenth-century America. They record both personal feeling and public conscience from one of the era's most influential Black writers.
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- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
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