Frances Harper — Iola Leroy with Dr. Koritha Mitchell Lost Ladies of Lit

Abolitionist, suffragist, and writer Frances Harper was widely acclaimed in her day and one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States. Her novel Iola Leroy is an eye-opening look at what it was like for Black Americans in the midst of, and in the decades following, the Civil War. Joining us in conversation is award-winning author, professor, and literary historian Dr. Koritha Mitchell, who edited and wrote the introduction to the 2018 Broadview Press edition. 

Discussed in this episode: 
Iola Leroy by Frances Harper 
Living with Lynching by Dr. Koritha Mitchell 
“The Two Offers” by Frances Harper
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African-American Culture by Dr. Koritha Mitchell 
Carla Peterson (University of Maryland English Department) 
“Forest Leaves” by Frances Harper
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Frederick Douglass
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Plantation Fiction 
Thomas Nelson Page
Joel Chandler Harris
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Passing by Nella Larson
Passing (2021 film) 
Ahmaud Arbery
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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