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Frances E. W Harper : a call to conscience / Utz McKnight.
"The first full account of a leading 19th century female writer and anti-slavery activist"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781509535538 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xiii, 301 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2021.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Stroud Branch | 818.309 Harpe-M | 31681010223717 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth centuryâs most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today.
In this new book, Utz McKnight shows how Harperâs life and work inspired her contemporaries to imagine a better America. He seeks to recover her importance by examining not only her vision of the possibilities of Emancipation, but also her subsequent role in challenging Jim Crow. He argues that engaging with her ideas and writings is vital in understanding not only our historical inheritance, but also contemporary issues ranging from racial violence to the role of Christianity.
This lucid book is essential reading not only for students of African American history, but also for all progressives interested in issues of race, politics, and society.
