Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted (Summarized Edition)

Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) blends sentimental romance with Reconstruction novel to follow a mixed-race heroine from enslavement to conscious affiliation with Black community. Drawing on domestic fiction and slave narrative, Harper stages debates on education, labor, temperance, and citizenship amid scenes of nursing, teaching, and family reunion. The prose alternates didactic dialogue...