Táto autorka skúma témy spravodlivosti, rovnosti a ľudskej dôstojnosti prostredníctvom svojej pôsobivej poézie a prózy. Jej diela, často inšpirované jej aktivizmom za práva žien a proti otroctvu, rezonujú nadčasovými posolstvami o sociálnej reforme a sile ľudského ducha. Svojím prenikavým pohľadom a naliehavým tónom vyzýva čitateľov k zamysleniu nad stavom spoločnosti a k konaniu v prospech spravodlivejšej budúcnosti. Svojimi literárnymi snahami sa stala priekopníčkou a hlasom pre marginalizovaných.
Frances Harper's fourth novel follows the beautiful Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery during the Civil War, and after Emancipation. Written by the foremost black woman activist of the nineteenth century, the novel sheds light on the movements for abolition, public education, and voting rights.
Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and abolitionist in the decades leading up to the American Civil War. Much of her work was rediscovered in the twentieth century and preserved for its significance to some of the leading social movements of the nineteenth century, including temperance, abolition, and women's sufferage