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  • Black Voices Matter

    by Frances E W Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay ...
    This anthology focuses on African-American poets. We start in the 18th century and end with the Harlem Renaissance. Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity ... Read more

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    70+ Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays

    Passing, The Goophered Grapevine, The Weary Blues, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and others

    by Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Still, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    Narrated by Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf, Rick Walz, Jowanna Lewis, Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    50 hours 19 min

    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

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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

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    The Great Poems by African American Writers

    Selections from Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen and many others

    by Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes ...
    Narrated by Shawna Wolf ...

    Unabridged

    39 min

    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

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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

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  • The Top 10 Short Stories - The African American Women

    by Frances E W Harper, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Pauline E Hopkins ...
    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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    Black Words Matter

    Poets From The 18th Century To The Harlem Renaissance

    by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Frances E. W. Harper ...
    Narrated by Darrell Joe, Laurel Lefkow, Trei House ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 51 min

    This anthology focuses on African-American poets. We start in the 18th century and end with the Harlem Renaissance. Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics and Poetics

    The Legacy of Frances E. W. Harper

    by Melba Joyce Boyd ...
    Series series African American Life
    Analyzing the writer as an activist and feminist who helped shape the Black women's movement.Frances E. W. Harper was a pioneering figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature and intellectual thought. A poet, educator, lecturer, essayist, and novelist, she played a key role in the abolitionist and feminist movements, particularly in shaping the Black women's movement. ... Read more

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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

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

    $0.99 USD

  • Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted

    by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ...
    The story revolves around the life of Iola Leroy, a young mixed-race woman born into slavery but raised as a free person by her white father. The novel follows Iola's journey as she navigates the complexities of her racial identity, her struggles during the Civil War, and her quest for social justice and equality.Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's novel addresses various social issues prevalent during ... Read more

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  • 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

    $5.99 USD