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  • Iola Leroy

    Or, Shadows Uplifted

    by Frances E. W. Harper ...
    The classic Civil War novel about a Southern woman who is unaware of her mixed-race heritage until she is sold into slavery by her uncle.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 revelation: Iola is half Black. She is sold off into slavery and sent ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Neglected Authors, The - Women - Volume 2

    Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

    by Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Frances Watkins Harper, Eliza Haywood, Winifred Holtby, Pauline E Hopkins, Violet Hunt, Vera Jelihovsky, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Amy Levy, Mary E Mann, Charlotte Mew, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Elinor Mordaunt ...
    Narrated by Kelly Burke, Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trial And Triumph

    by Frances E.W. Harper ...
    Trial and triumph portrays the emotional and moral growth of a young girl shaped by prejudice, family tension, and social expectation. The narrative explores how identity is formed within a community marked by racial hierarchy and rigid judgment. At its center lies the struggle between inherited bitterness and the possibility of compassion. The story reflects on generational conflict, particularly ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Reconstruction-Era Novel of Emancipation, Mixed-Race Identity, and Black Women's Education

    by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Olive Briarford ...
    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) is a landmark Reconstruction novel that follows Iola, a mixed-race woman born into slavery, through war, emancipation, and the moral demands of citizenship. Combining sentimental fiction, abolitionist rhetoric, domestic realism, and political debate, Harper transforms the conventional romance plot into a meditation on race, ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African American Women Poets from 1746 to the Harlem Renaissance

    by Frances E W Harper, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Gwendolyn B Bennett ...
    Race and gender have denied many their rightful place in the canon of humanity’s arts.In today’s world, in the blink of an electronic pulse, words can be transported across continents and peoples and all too easily lost in the ever-growing mass of disposable culture of ‘me-me-me’ and ‘more- more-more’. We can all be ‘woke’ be ‘politically correct’ be outraged at a transgression or even a slight. ... Read more

    $8.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Iola Leroy (Unabridged)

    by FRANCES E. W. HARPER ...
    Narrated by Lynette Christner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Later freed by the Union Army, she journeyed to find others of her family who had been disunited from each other and strewn across the south by the forces of slavery. In the process she also struggled to improve the economic ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Minnie's Sacrifice

    by Frances E.W. Harper ...
    Minnie's Sacrifice examines racial identity, moral courage, and the cost of compassion within a divided society structured by inequality and inherited status. The narrative centers on a young girl raised in comfort yet unknowingly bound to a hidden background that challenges the security of her upbringing. Emotional conflict grows as truth and social reality begin to collide, revealing how ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays. Illustrated

    by William Wells Brown, Harriet E. Wilson, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frances E. W. Harper, Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Charles Ball, Josiah Henson, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, Louis Hughes, Booker T. Washington, Henry Box Brown, James Hambleton Christian, Theophilus Collins, Seth Concklin, Charles Gilbert, Samuel Green, Jamie Griffin, Harry Grimes, John Henry Hill, Jane Johnson, Matilda Mahoney, Mary Frances Melvin, Aunt Hannah Moore, Alfred S. Thornton, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted

    by Frances E. W. Harper ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 February 22, 1911) was an African American abolitionist and poet. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, she had a long and prolific career, publishing her first book of poetry at twenty and her first novel, the widely praised Iola Leroy, at age 67." ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iola Leroy

    by Frances Ellen Watkin Harper ...
    A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermathFirst published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood. After she ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted. Illustrated

    by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ...
    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States.At 67, she published her widely praised novel Lola Leroy (1892), placing her among the first Black women to publish a novel. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Neglected Authors, The - Women - The Complete Edition

    Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

    by Gertrude Atherton, Lady Augusta Gregory, Aphra Behn, Helena Blavatsky, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, D K Broster, Rhoda Broughton, Mary Butts, Mary Cholmondeley, Mrs Craik, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Bithia Mary Croker, Ella D'Arcy, E M Delafield, Maria Edgeworth, Dorothy Edwards, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Lettice Galbraith, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Frances Watkins Harper ...
    Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Laurel Lefkow, Kelly Burke ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 38 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus