Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a gifted poet, author, and lecturer. ... Fortunately, Harper was placed in the loving care of her uncle, William Watkins, who deeply influenced her life. ... This school was founded by her uncle, William Watkins. ... Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's poems were first published in abolitionist periodicals in 1839. ... Because of her marriage to Fenton Harper in 1860, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper withdrew from public life. ...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

France Harper was never a slave herself. However, been born in Baltimore, Maryland, a well-known "slave state" then, she was hugely influenced by the leftover impact from slavery, the continuously discrimination regarding the racism, sexism and political issues and luckily, by her well-educated uncle, William Watkins. ... "Bury Me in a Free Land" was published in 1864 the same year when Harper's husband, Fenton Harper died. ... The freedom Harper was longing for through this poem was represented both as a physical condition and spiritual achievement. ... And according to Harper, all these...

• Word Count: 517
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

France Harper was never a slave herself. However, been born in Baltimore, Maryland, a well-known "slave state" then, she was hugely influenced by the leftover impact from slavery, the continuously discrimination regarding the racism, sexism and political issues and luckily, by her well-educated uncle, William Watkins. ... "Bury Me in a Free Land" was published in 1864 the same year when Harper's husband, Fenton Harper died. ... The freedom Harper was longing for through this poem was represented both as a physical condition and spiritual achievement. ... And according to Harper, all these...

• Word Count: 513
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Truly one of the nineteenth century's Renaissance women, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, abolitionist, feminist, Christian writer, and temperance and women's rights organizer. ... In her work, "The Dying Fugitive," Harper tells the story of a slave who escapes and gets very close to his freedom, but dies first. ... In the second stanza Harper unfolds the story of this unfortunate man saying "He must die, when just before him,/Lay the long"d for, precious prize-/And the hopes that lit him onward,/Faded out before his eyes" (9-12). ... Harper us...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

James Durward Harper Jr., who last moth pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell United States missile research data to Polish intelligence agents, was sentenced to life in prison on May 14th. ... Harper's lawyer pleaded with the judge to reduce his clients sentence to a mere twenty years due to the fact that many of the documents Harper gave to Polish officials were unclassified. ... Harper had already had many of the charges he was facing dropped. His wife, Ruby Louise Harper was also accused of taking classified documents from Systems Control Inc. and Systems Control Technology, where sh...

• Word Count: 3089
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

Brown, with only eighteen men, five of whom were Negroes, attacked and captured the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W. ... Although her career was short, it set the stage for the African American women speakers who followed: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman, among others. ...

• Word Count: 2903
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School