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Frances Harper - Poems, Prose and Sketches (Paperback)
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Frances Harper - Poems, Prose and Sketches (Paperback)
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Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection
of writing by Frances Harper. Harper, the first African American
woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and
impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to the American
Civil War. Much of her work was rediscovered in the twentieth
century and preserved for its significance to some of the leading
social movements of the nineteenth century, including temperance,
abolition, and women's suffrage. As an artist for whom the personal
was always political, Frances Harper served in a leadership role at
the Women's Christian Temperance Union and worked to establish the
National Association of Colored Women, serving for a time as vice
president of the organization. Included in this volume are extracts
of her early poetry volumes, including Forest Leaves (1845) and
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854). In "Bury Me in Free Land,"
an influential poem published in an 1858 edition of abolitionist
newspaper The Anti-Slavery Bugle, Harper expresses her commitment
to the cause of freedom in life or death terms: "I ask no monument,
proud and high, / To arrest the gaze of the passers-by; / All that
my yearning spirit craves, / Is bury me not in a land of slaves."
She reflects on the theme of freedom throughout her body of work,
often examining her own identity or experiences as a free Black
woman alongside the lives of her enslaved countrymen. In "Free
Work," she looks to something as simple as her own clothing and
examines its connection-or lack thereof-to the institution of
slavery: "I wear an easy garment, / O'er it no toiling slave / Wept
tears of hopeless anguish, / In his passage to the grave."
Reflecting on the horrors of slavery through the lens of the
everyday, Harper refuses to take for granted the significance of
freedom in all of its manifestations, a reality which is sometimes
as simple as the clothes on her back. In these poems and speeches
from across her lengthy career as an artist and activist, Harper
not only dedicates herself to her suffering people, but imagines a
time "When men of diverse sects and creeds / Are clasping hand in
hand." With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Frances Harper's Frances Harper: Poems,
Prose, and Sketches is a classic of African American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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