<p><i>Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches</i> collects some of the best writing of America's first Black woman novelist. An activist of words and deeds, Harper was a politically engaged artist who fought throughout her life for abolition, temperance, and women's suffrage. In these poems, speeches, and sketches, she investigates the horrors of history while dreaming of a brighter day to come.</p>
