Iola Leroy Paperback - 2010
by Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
- Used
Description
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Details
- Title Iola Leroy
- Author Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2010-01-26
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP29655614
- ISBN 9780143106043 / 014310604X
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.12 x 0.68 in (19.86 x 13.00 x 1.73 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Racially mixed people, Slaves
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009035095
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath
First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend school, only to be sold into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood. After she is freed by the Union army, she works to reunify her family and embrace her heritage, committing herself to improving the conditions for blacks in America.
Through her fascinating characters-including Iola's brother, who fights at the front in a colored regiment-Harper weaves a vibrant and provocative chronicle of the Civil War and its consequences through African American eyes in this critical contribution to the nation's literature.