Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E.W. Harper, the best-known Africa-American writer of the nineteeny century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER between 1868 and 1888, these works are the first written specifically for an African-American audience; they address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and…
Author: Frances E W Harper · Original publisher: Beacon Press (Boston, 1994)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1869 (Minnie's Sacrifice), 1876–1877 (Sowing and Reaping) and 1888–1889 (Trial and Triumph), serialized in the Christian Recorder; full text of the original works freely available at Project Gutenberg. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `9420-minnie-s-sacrifice-sowing-and-reaping-trial-and.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
