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Frances Ellen Watkins
(1825 - 1911)

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Frances Ellen Watkins was born free in the slave city of Baltimore, Maryland on September 25,1825. She never experienced the hardships of slavery and yet she would devote her entire life to the abolitionist movement, and what she called "a brighter coming day". After receiving an education at h .. .. more >>

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1		A Little Child Shall Lead Them
2		A Story of the Rebellion
3		An Appeal to My Countywomen
4		Aunt Chloe
5		Burial of Sarah
6		Bury Me in a Free Land
7		Dandelions
8		Death of the Old Sea King
9		Do Not Cheer, Men Are Dying, Said Capt. Phillips
10		Fishers of Men
11		Go Work in My Vineyard
12		God Bless Our Native Land
13		Going East
14		He Had Not Where to Lay His Head
15		Home, Sweet Home
16		I Thirst
17		Jamie's Puzzle
18		Let the Light Enter
19		Maceo
20		Mother's Treasures

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VG: Artist Biography: Watkins, Frances Ellen
Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper) was born in 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, which was a free state at that time. Harper's mother died before she was three years ...
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/watkins_frances_ellen.html

The My Hero Project - Frances Ellen Watkins
Though she herself was born in a free state, Frances Ellen Watkins (sometimes recognized with the addition of her last name, Harper) devoted her life to ...
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=franceswat

Frances Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825-February 22, 1911), was an African-American writer, lecturer, and political activist, who promoted ...
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/francesharper.html

Frances Harper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frances Smith Foster, ed., A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader, 1990. Melba Joyce Boyd, Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Harper

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