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...

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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. ...

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