Frances Harper
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.
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- One hundred years ago and Africa was the privileged hunting-ground of Europe and America, and the flag of different nations hung a sign of death on the coasts of Congo and Guinea, and for years unbroken silence had hung around the horrors of the African slave-trade.
- An Address Delivered at the Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 14, 1875.
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- Novelists from the United States
- Poets from the United States
- Short story writers from the United States
- Essayists from the United States
- Educators from the United States
- Journalists from the United States
- Abolitionists
- Orators from the United States
- African Americans
- 1825 births
- 1911 deaths
- People from Baltimore
- 19th-century American poets