By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A landmark account of the African American event throughout the Civil conflict and its aftermath
First released in 1892, this stirring novel by means of the nice author and activist Frances Harper tells the tale of the younger daughter of a filthy rich Mississippi planter who travels to the North to wait tuition, purely to be bought into slavery within the South while it really is chanced on that she has Negro blood. After she is freed through the Union military, she works to reunify her family members and include her background, committing herself to bettering the stipulations for blacks in the US.
via her attention-grabbing characters-including Iola's brother, who fights on the entrance in a coloured regiment-Harper weaves a colourful and provocative chronicle of the Civil battle and its results via African American eyes during this serious contribution to the nation's literature.
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