Minnie's Sacrifice
- ISBN-10
- 1494861267
- ISBN-13
- 9781494861261
- Series
- Minnie's Sacrifice
- Pages
- 120
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-06
- Author
- Francis Harper
Description
Born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland. After her mother died when she was three years old in 1828, Watkins was orphaned. She was raised by her aunt and uncle. She was educated at the Academy for Negro Youth, a school run by her uncle Rev. William Watkins, who was a civil rights activist. He was a major influence on her life and work.[1][2] At fourteen, she found work as a seamstress.Frances Watkins had her first volume of verse, Forest Leaves, published in 1845 (it has been lost). Her second book, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, published in 1854, was extremely popular. Over the next few years, it was reprinted in 20 editions. Many African American women's service clubs named themselves in her honor, and across the nation, in cities such as St. Louis, St. Paul, and Pittsburgh, F. E. W. Harper Leagues and Frances E. Harper Women's Christian Temperance Unions thrived well into the twentieth century.[3] - goodreads
