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"In the Sunny South": Reconstructing Frances Harper as Southern
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Southern Quarterly
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April 1, 2008
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A woman of words and might, with poetic sensibilities, "enlightened" intelligence, and professional savvy, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper rarely recorded personal reflections of her life and career. She was a popular writer and political activist as well as a devoted wife and mother. Though she had few close relatives, she operated within a supportive network of prominent nineteenth-century African Americans like abolitionists William Still and Frederick Douglass, the evangelist Francis J. Grimké and his wife, the poet Charlotte Forten Grimké, and journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett. This rich historical context has both its advantages and disadvantages. These references provide clues about the ...
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