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Frances Harper
1825 – 1911
Maryland
Frances Harper was born a freewoman in Maryland. She was educated and well read, courtesy of her uncle’s school for Black children. Harper used her education to become a poet, and she published a collection of her poems in 1854 entitled,
Poems in Miscellaneous Subjects.
Her works attacked prejudices, racism and sexism, and the book became a best seller. The money Harper earned as an author and speaker would be used to fund societies dedicated to the assistance of African-Americans and women in the United States.
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