num_pages: 432
description: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African-American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and a generous selection of prose and letters, and provides moving portraits of suffering under slavery, as well as of freedom, love, infidelity, poverty, and heroism.
language: English
title: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
titlecomplete: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
genres: Poetry, Short Stories
ratings_count: 26
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY