Iola Leroy Paperback by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (1999-12-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807065198
• Item Weight: 317.52 grams
• Dimensions: 20.19 x 13.59 x 1.78 cm

Iola Leroy was originally published in 1892, during a time of black disenfranchisement, lynching, and Jim Crow laws. It is the story of a "refined mulatto" raised to believe she's white until she and her mother are sold into slavery. Iola becomes an outspoken advocate for her people and a critic of race-mixing. Her story offers an important portrait of black life during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

About the Author

Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911), a popular lecturer, poet, and author, was a leader in the suffrage and temperance movements and a founding member of the National Association of Colored Women.