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Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it also deals with serious social issues of education for women, passing ...
(title page) Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted. Frances E. W. Harper. Third Edition [iv], 282 p. Boston: James H. Earle [1892] Call number CC813 H293I (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Iola Leroy; Shadows Uplifted teaches about how black slaves and "mulattos" had to fight for their freedom as well as how they were being treated by their owners. It shines light on how strong as well as just how smart they really were regardless to what their owners or others may have thought.
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Books. Iola Leroy: or, Shadows Uplifted. Frances E. W. Harper. Broadview Press, Feb 28, 2018 - Fiction - 375 pages. Frances Harper’s fourth novel follows the life of the beautiful,...
The beautiful, refined daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter and slaveholder, Iola Leroy leads a privileged life and attends school in the North. But a family tragedy leads to a stunning...
About the author (1892) Popular with both African American and white audiences, Frances Ellen Harper's poetry, novels, short stories, and lectures reflected her antislavery and antiracist...
