- Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
- September 24, 1825 - February 22, 1911
- born Baltimore, Maryland
Orphaned at 3, married, widowed after 4 years, daughter died young, early
poet and well-known Black author, spoke out for abolition and women's rights,
aided fugitive slaves, lectured for Maine Anti-Slavery Society, toured
eastern states 1850s, after war lectured in South on temperance, Black
morality, and against white racial violence, attended 1875 and 1887 suffrage
conventions.
Biographical information excerpted from Women Win the Vote
distributed by The National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Road,
Windsor, California, 95492-8518. Graphic and text posted by permission NWHP, 1994.
(Note: The NWHP has moved and this address is no longer correct)
Francis E. W. Harper