In the heart of the antebellum South, where the weight of slavery suffocates the land, a poignant tale unfolds in "The Crocuses." Meet Miss Lou, a young woman of mixed race, whose life is a tapestry of...

In the heart of the antebellum South, Minnie, a young enslaved woman, faces an impossible choice. Torn between her love for her family and her desire for freedom, she embarks on a perilous journey that...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer. She was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States. Born free...

This novel, like two other novels that Harper serialized in The Christian Recorder, sets forth the principles which make for a meaningful, moral life. In Trial and Triumph, we follow Annette Harcourt...

This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Later freed by the Union Army,...

This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and uses her writings for didactic purposes. Here she contrast two...