“O women of America! into your hands God has pressed one of the sublimest opportunities that ever came into the hands of the women of any race or people.”
About 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…