Frances E. W. Harper — a remark

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“More than the increase of wealth, the power of armies, and the strength of fleets is the need of good homes, of good fathers, and good mothers.”

She places family life and moral formation above military and material power. · Speech, Woman's Political Future, 1893

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Frances E. W. Harper

24 September 1825–22 February 1911

In the rich tapestry of nineteenth-century American literature and reform, few figures shine as brightly—or with as enduring a flame—as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Born into freedom yet forged in the fires of racial injustice, she emerged as a poet of profound moral vision, a tireless abolitionist lecturer, a…

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