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Leaving the Good Mother: Frances E. W. Harper, Lydia Maria Child, and the Literary Politics of Reconstruction
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African American activist and poet Frances E. W. Harper gained attention in the 1850s with her passionate antislavery poetry; the end of the war saw Harper publishing anew. But for a poet who carefully shaped responses to her work by unambiguously referencing current events, some of Harper's postwar publications seemed inscrutable. In 1869, Harper published Moses: A Story of the Nile, a book containing two items: "Moses," a forty-one-page eponymous poem that elaborately revises Exodus, and a four-page prose allegory, "The Mission of the Flowers," in which a rose tree magically transforms a garden's other flowers into roses. By 1870, the book was in its third edition, and, according to ...
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