Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted

Name: Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted
Author: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
ISBN: 9781787365643

Author: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Series: African Library
Language: English
Length: 220 pages
ISBN: 9781787365643
Published: 20 January 2023
Imprint: Sovereign

africa
african
black culture
black heritage
discrimination
racism
salvery
equality
inequality
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Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is an important example of early African American literature. This novel takes the form of a realist narrative that chronicles the struggles of African Americans to achieve freedom, dignity and equality in a post-Civil War society. Through its protagonist, Iola Leroy, Harper offers an uplifting story about the resilience of black people despite systemic oppression.

Author

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) was a poet, lecturer, and novelist — a free Black woman from Baltimore who made the platform and the page serve abolition and temperance. Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted is among the earliest novels by an African American woman, a Reconstruction story of family, passing, and work. One title here. Dignity is the method.

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