Biography of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American poet, fiction writer, journalist, and abolitionist of the nineteenth century. She was born during 1825 to free African-American parents in Baltimore, Maryland and died during 1911 in...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper published her first volume of poetry when she was just 16, carved out fame on the anti-slavery lecture circuit by publically speaking on the subject in excess of two hours without consulting a written text or notes and...