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Frances E.W. Harper  

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  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a black writer, lecturer, abolitionist, suffragist, promoter of women's rights, and proponent of social uplift. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to free parents, but was orphaned at 3 years old. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Harper, Frances E.W.]

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