Tireless Champion
African American activist and writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper used the spoken and written word to champion racial equality. And she was active at a time when women and African Americans were not equal citizens in the United States.
Born in 1825, Frances grew up as a free Black child in the slave state of Maryland. But she always felt as if the “shadow of slavery hung dark over the home of my childhood.” She witnessed the misery of chained captives of all ages being marched through the
