Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born free in Maryland and later became an anti-slavery lecturer and poet. She worked for civil rights after the Civil War, and also for women's rights. She was a founder of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper biography: she was an African American poet and abolitionist, and after the Civil War also worked for women's rights.
Quotes by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
"Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist." An essay from African American reformer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on the role of motherhood near the end of the 19th century (1892).
