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Abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: One of the Earliest African-American Novelists

By: Melanie Cunningham Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born on September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, MD.  Unlike many African-Americans in the 1800s, Harper was born a free person of color. At the age three, she became an orphan due to the death of her mother and was subsequently raised by her aunt and uncle.  She was educated at the […]

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