Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Born to free parents in Maryland in 1825, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper became a writer and poet, the most famous African American woman poet after Phillis Wheatley. When she moved to the North in 1850, she also became an abolitionist. After the Civil War, she worked for racial equality and the rights of women, while continuing as a lecturer and writer. Learn more:

• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Quotes
• Enlightened Motherhood: 1892 address