...This chapter shows how African American poet Frances Harper Harper explicitly transnationalizes the question of freedom and humanity for African Americans in the nineteenth century. In a country torn between a national rhetoric of freedom and a social and economic dependency...

...This chapter examines the ways in which Cristina Ayala and Frances Harper’s work demonstrates the interdependence of slavery and freedom. It demonstrates how the problematic relationship between freedom and slavery appears at the level of the poetic line. In distinct ways, each poem uses symbolism...

... of traumatic conflict. The array of novels and memoirs published in the decades after the war by such varied and prominent authors as Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Ellen Glasgow, Frances Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henry James, and Ulysses S. Grant lend support to this view. Appomattox Va Atlantic Monthly...

..., a national organization founded in 1866 and counted among its leaders the likes of Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Harper. Whereas Douglass fought for influence within the Republican Party, Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and their allies employed a different strategy called New Departure...

... Moore Marianne Plath Sylvia Morrison Toni Edward Taylor Jonathan Edwards Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman Frances Harper Toni Morrison typology The first English settlers to America arrived in a wilderness without the immemorial...

... Washington George Frances Harper fast days Frederick Douglass racism Acts 17:26 Louis Agassiz Curse of Ham Exodus George Washington white supremacy Although many hoped that the Emancipation Proclamation would enlist God for the Union’s side, it did not seem that God was on any side in 1863. Many...

...The moral crusades of Sojourner Truth and Frances Harper, activists against racial and gender oppression. Douglass Frederick Truth Sojourner freedom Garrison William Lloyd Massachusetts Walker David Bible Liberia Odera Oruka Henry Sage Philosophy beauty Christianity emancipation logic...

... Writing and racialization Hurston Zora Neale Harlem New Negro black biblical interpretation Frances Harper John Jasper Civil War slave economy Reconstruction black life black community I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea. The Lord...

... Barbara Emily Dickinson Frances Harper African American literature Civil War race Black Massachusetts reception Black children children’s literature literature anthologies Scholars have noted that Emily Dickinson’s poetic composition increased during the Civil War, arguing rightly...

...This chapter examines the role of women of African descent in the poetic re-imagining of the post-abolition “Americas” through a close, comparative analysis of Frances Harper and Cristina Ayala. Ayala and Harper posit a reconciled relationship of African descendants with the racist nation-state...

... reconfigurations of biblical tropes and her attention to the recurrent theme of freedom through the literary re-imagining of identity not only link her work to a national and transnational discourse about slavery and freedom, but also align her work with other afrodescendente writers like Frances Harper...

... Frances Harper struggled in their efforts to get the WCTU to make racial justice a priority. African Americans Black voters Chapin Sallie Gordon Anna Jim Crow segregation Reconstruction Southern Reconstruction Willard Frances women’s activism Douglass Frederick Freedman’s Aid schools Haygood...

... fantasies to contemporary readers. This is the question at the centre of this book’s examination of the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia Johnson, Katherine Tillman, and Frances Harper. The book is a literary study, but also a social and intellectual history—a cultural critique of a period...

... feminism intersectionality Reconstruction Frances Harper Antislavery I voice Social reform Biblical precepts In the late 1860s, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—a freeborn, middle-class, educated Black woman from the North who had already established her reputation as an outstanding lecturer...

... for women's rights demanded the same rights. This book examines various claims to equal adulthood within the context of feminism by focusing on feminist thinkers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Harper, Maria Stewart, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frederick Douglass. It explores chronological age, maturity...

... and segregation for the races, as well as the use of chronological age to define the rights and duties of older Americans. More specifically, it analyzes the argument that age twenty-one must become a transition to full citizenship for all Americans. Finally, it discusses the views of Frances Harper and Sojourner...

... the realities of African American women’s lived experience. Focusing on the novels of Frances Harper and Pauline Hopkins, Iola Leroy (1892) and Contending Forces (1899), respectively, it explores existing notions of racial difference and argues that Harper and Hopkins represent...

... formation of the properly optimistic freed man or woman, however, was the special affective labor of the black republican mother. Focusing on Frances Harper and her last novel, Iola Leroy (1892), this chapter argues for the need to rethink the relation among embodiment, affect, and agency...

... lynching Wells Barnett Ida B Black nationalism colored American The Davis Henrietta Vinton Mitchell John Jr Page Thomas Nelson Frederick Douglass Frances Harper Josie D. Heard Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ida B. Wells-Barnett The last stanza of “The Warning” seems almost like a prophecy. — Juliet...