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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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