Poems and Prose: The Definitive Collection (The Parapet Press Freedom Library)

Frances E. W. Harper was among the most widely read poets of nineteenth-century America — a lecturer, abolitionist, and reformer whose verse carried the moral urgency of her age across the nation.

This is the definitive collection: every poem and every prose piece, gathered in a single volume. It restores writing found almost nowhere else — her rare 1849 debut, Forest Leaves; poems uncollected since their first printing; and the essays and addresses that shaped a movement — alongside the celebrated Sketches of Southern Life and the book-length Moses: A Story of the Nile.

Ten parts span her whole career, from Forest Leaves (1849) through Poems (1895) and Idylls of the Bible (1901), closing with her major essays and addresses.

The complete Harper, in one edition