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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

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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