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HARPER’S WRITINGS

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an incredibly prolific writer, and her poems were constant features of the Black press. Below are some of the poems she published in the The Weekly Anglo-African and The Liberator. Read more about the historical context of her writings as well as her actual publications by exploring the following pages:

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Let the Light Enter,” The Weekly Anglo-African, 14 July 1860. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030179/1860-07-14/ed-1/seq-1/

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “The Dying Child to its Blind Father,” The Weekly Anglo-African, March 24, 1860. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030179/1860-03-24/ed-1/seq-1/

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “To Charles Sumner,” The Weekly Anglo-African, June 30,1860. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030179/1860-06-30/ed-1/seq-1/

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “To the Cleveland Union Savers,”The Liberator, March 8, 1861. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031524/1861-03-08/ed-1/seq-4/

 

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