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“In coming into her political estate woman will find a mass of illiteracy to be dispelled. If knowledge is power, ignorance is also power.”

She links women's political advancement with the urgent need to confront ignorance. · Speech, Woman's Political Future, 1893

About Frances E. W. Harper

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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