Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted
Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 2010, is an unabridged republication of the second edition of Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted, originally published in 1893 by Garrigues Brothers, Philadelphia.
Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted, by Frances E. W. Harper.
Well , I'm jis ' gwine to keep on prayin ' an ' b'lievin ' . ... Las ' Sunday we had it in Gibson's woods ; Sunday ' fore las ' , in de old cypress swamp ; an ' nex ' Sunday we'el hab one in McCullough's woods .
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women WritersGeneral Editor: HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such...
Iola Leroy, a racially mixed girl who becomes a slave when her white father dies, finds that through her maternal ancestors she is heir to a black family, and searches for her true community and her real family.
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Iola fights to uplift her race and searches for her family. Frances Harper tells the story of this young black woman along with moral lessons and practical life lessons.
Reproduction of the original: Iola Leroy by Frances E.W Harper
'Iola Leroy', one of the first novels published by an African-American woman, follows a group of slaves who are seeking refuge with the approaching Union army during the Civil War.