Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Militant Intersectionality.

HARPER, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911; AFRICAN American women authors; WOMEN abolitionists; ANTISLAVERY literature; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; HISTORY of human rights; AFRICAN American women political activists

The article explores the life and writings of African American author and abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper during the American Civil War. Topics discussed include the publication of her anti-slavery poems in various newspapers, the arguments she raised for the promotion of basic human rights during the said period, and her return to activism following the death of her husband in May 1864.