Adventure, romance, and social commentary come together in the 1892 novel Iola Leroy about a mixed-race woman carving out a place for herself after the American Civil War.
Poet, abolitionist, and activist for women鈥檚 rights, Frances EW Harper was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States, producing 80 poems, various articles, sketches, serialised books and short stories and a novel printed when she was aged 67. New Generation Thinker Xine Yao looks at her career, focusing on this 1892 novel Iola Leroy. It tells the story of a Black mixed race woman who survives the Civil War, experiences romances and has to navigate the post-emancipation world and it explores ideas about science, education, evolving forms of anti-Black racism, and women's social responsibilities.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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