Episode 4 - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wore many hats throughout her illustrious life. She is not well known today, but during the 19th century, she was a household name in the United States. 

Resources

1.  Bell, Janet Dewart. “Blackbirds Singing: inspiring Black women's speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century.” pp. 25-34.  New York: The New Press, 2024.

     2. Petrino, Elizabeth A.  "We are rising as a people": Frances Harper's
          radical views on class and racial equality in Sketches of Southern Life"
        (2005).          English Faculty Publications. 71.   
         https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-facultypubs/71

    3.  Still, William. “The underground railroad. A record of facts, authentic  
          narratives, letters &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and
         death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom.” Philadelphia, Pa.,
         Porter & Coates, 1872.

    4. Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.  “African American Woman and the Struggle for
         the  Vote, 1850 - 1920,” Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University 
         Press,1998.

Black Suffragist in the Spotlight is written and produced by Jennifer Rolle. Music: “Passage” by Moija (Uppbeat); “Future” and “Good Feelings” by Aleksandr Shamaluev (Ashamevalue Music).  Cover art: Photographs of Hallie Quinn Brown and Helen Nannie Boroughs courtesy of the Library of Congress.