5/23/2023 0 Comments Frances harper iola leroy![]() ![]() ![]() After discussing the progress the Union has made against the Confederacy, Robert convinces Tom to escape his master to join up with the Northern Army, along with other slaves Robert has enlisted. ![]() The beginning of the novel takes place at the height of the Civil War, as two slaves, Tom Anderson and Robert Johnson, meet in secret at a North Carolina slave market. Using a narrative approach that was quite bold for its era, the novel leaps back and forth in time and between multiple perspectives to tell the story of Iola Leroy. Though her ancestry is majority-white, the protagonist refuses to "pass" as a white woman after slavery is abolished, instead, dedicating herself to honoring her African heritage and uplifting African-Americans. One of the earliest novels ever published by an African-American, Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) by the American author and abolitionist Frances Harper tells the story of a mixed-race woman who is born free but later kidnapped into slavery. ![]()
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