Frances Watkins Harper (1825 – 1911), also known as Frances E.W. Harper or Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, was a 19th century American poet, novelist, social reformer, lecturer, suffragist, and abolitionist.

Presented here is the full text of Poems by Frances E.W. Harper, published in 1896. (Philadelphia:  George S. Ferguson Co.) She wrote prolifically from the time she published her first collection of poetry in 1845, at the age of twenty.

A freeborn African American from Baltimore, Maryland, she dedicated her life to social causes, including abolition, women’s suffrage, and the quest for equality. Read More→