Frances E.W. Harper A Call to Conscience - Black Lives

Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century's most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today. In this new book, Utz McKnight shows how Harper's life and work inspired her contemporaries to imagine a better America. He seeks to recover her importance by examining not only her vision of the possibilities of Emancipation, but also her subsequent role in challenging Jim Crow. He argues that engaging with her ideas and writings is vital in understanding not only our historical inheritance, but also contemporary issues ranging from racial violence to the role of Christianity. This lucid book is essential reading not only for students of African American history, but also for all progressives interested in issues of race, politics, and society.

ISBN:	9781509535545
Publisher:	Polity Press
Imprint:	Polity Press
Published date:	30 Oct 2020
DEWEY:	818.309
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	280 .
Weight:	416g
Height:	141mm
Width:	209mm
Spine width:	27mm

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