Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and reconstruction /

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century, all while lecturing across the nation and writing powerful novels, poems, essays, and sketches. Still, though Harper was well-k...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gardner, Eric (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1: Strangers and Neighbors: Recovering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Life and Work
  • 2: Origin Stories
  • 3: Reconstructing an Abolitionist Voice
  • 4: "Go on": Harper's Challenges to Reconstruction
  • 5: "Lay the whole foundation anew": Harper in the Thick of Reconstruction
  • 6: The Fifteenth Amendment and Epic Struggles
  • 7: Endings and Not
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Works Cited
  • A Note on Harper's Works
  • Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Periodicals
  • Manuscript Sources and Government and Records
  • Books and Articles
  • Index