Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), an anti-slavery activist, wrote Lola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted (1892), the first novel published by an African-American woman in the United States.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), an anti-slavery activist, wrote Lola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted (1892), the first novel published by an African-American woman in the United States.