num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: Iola Leroy
titlecomplete: Iola Leroy (Black Women Writers Series)
genres: Fiction, American, School, Read For School, Classics, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Race, African American
ratings_count: 1461
publisher: Beacon Press