Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted

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Garrigues, 1892 - Fiction - 282 pages
 

Contents

I
7
II
15
III
24
IV
32
V
37
VI
43
VII
50
VIII
56
XVIII
148
XIX
164
XX
175
XXI
188
XXII
191
XXIII
198
XXIV
205
XXV
213

IX
61
X
73
XI
86
XII
97
XIII
109
XIV
120
XV
129
XVI
139
XVII
144
XXVI
221
XXVII
230
XXVIII
237
XXIX
241
XXX
246
XXXI
262
XXXII
267
XXXIII
275

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Page 256 - The foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests ; but the Son of man had not where to lay his head, Luke ix.
Page 250 - Again, it adds to the intensity of purpose. The men who sought the life of Paul bound themselves with an oath that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Page 271 - Kindred hopes and tastes had knit their hearts; grand and noble purposes were lighting up their lives; and they esteemed it a blessed privilege to stand on the threshold of a new era and labor for those who had passed from the old oligarchy of slavery into the new commonwealth of freedom.
Page 227 - I think," said Dr. Latrobe, proudly, "that we belong to the highest race on earth and the negro to the lowest." "And yet," said Dr. Latimer, "you have consorted with them till you have bleached their faces to the whiteness of your own. Your children nestle in their bosoms; they are around you as body servants, and yet if one of them should attempt to associate with you your bitterest scorn and indignation would be visited upon them.
Page 205 - I have a theory that every woman ought to know how to earn her own living. I believe that a great amount of sin and misery springs from the weakness and inefficiency of women.
Page 239 - The blood of a proud aristocratic ancestry was flowing through his veins, and generations of blood admixture had effaced all trace of his negro lineage.
Page 38 - Trus" me for dat," said Tom. Tom was very anxious to get word to the beautiful but intractable girl who was held in durance vile by her reckless and selfish master, who had tried in vain to drag her down to his own low level of sin and shame.
Page 39 - Could it be possible that this young and beautiful girl had been a chattel, with no power to protect herself from the highest insults that lawless brutality could inflict upon innocent and defenseless womanhood? Could he ever again glory in his American citizenship, when any white man, no matter how coarse, cruel, or brutal, could buy or sell her for the basest purposes?

About the author (1892)

Popular with both African American and white audiences, Frances Ellen Harper's poetry, novels, short stories, and lectures reflected her antislavery and antiracist attitudes, going beyond these themes to address broader social issues, such as women's suffrage and temperance. Born to a free family in Baltimore, Harper was encouraged to read and write by her employer, the wife of a bookseller. She moved to the free state of Ohio in 1850, where she taught, spoke for the Anti-Slavery Society of Maine, and published her popular Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854). Her novel, Iola Leroy (1892), depicts a slave family's effort to reunite after emancipation. It was the first work to chronicle the Reconstruction South from an African American point of view. Although criticized by some as overly sentimental and unrealistic, the novel must be seen in context as an appeal for readers' sympathy and understanding.

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