Poetry
Автор:
Frances Ellen Watkins HarperЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
39
Description
Born a free woman of color in Baltimore in 1825, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist poet active in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As a traveling lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society, Harper agitated for the emancipation of enslaved people before the American Civil War and afterwards worked in the South as a teacher during Reconstruction. The contents of many of her poems, like “Bury Me in a Free Land,” reflect her advocacy of abolition. Other prominent themes that appear in Harper’s work, especially in later periods of her career, include retellings of Biblical narratives and the temperance...
