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- NAME: Frances E.W. Harper
- OCCUPATION: Activist, Poet
- BIRTH DATE: September 24, 1825
- DEATH DATE: February 22, 1911
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Baltimore, Maryland
- PLACE OF DEATH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Full Name: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Originally: Frances Ella Watkins
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Poet and orator Frances Watkins, the child of two free black parents, publicly advocated for abolition and education through speeches and publications.
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Frances Watkins was born on September 24, 1825, in Baltimore, Maryland. She was able to attend school as the daughter of free black parents. Her first poem collection, Forest Leaves, was published around 1845. The delivery of her public speech, “Education and the Elevation of the Colored Race,” resulted in a two-year lecture tour for the Anti-Slavery Society. She died in 1911.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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