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Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

A novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper depicting the lives of enslaved and formerly enslaved African Americans during and after the Civil War, exploring themes of freedom, education, morality, and racial uplift through the story of Iola Leroy and her community.

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What this book knows

Race, womanhood, and moral courage collide as Iola Leroy chooses racial solidarity and purposeful work over passing and comfort.

Sex: Present
Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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self-and-identity

Doctor, you know not what you ask — barriers too high, yet love laughs at impossibilities; Iola's tears confirm the cost of who she is.
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She is beautiful, faithful, and pure, yet all society will tolerate is what I would scorn to do.
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Neither gratitude nor friendship is love — and there are barriers between us that I cannot pass.
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Her eyes flashing with rage and scorn, every nerve trembling: Iola's fury is the self refusing violation.
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A soul fearfully tempest tossed, passed through suffering into peace — the Lord says we must forgive.
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calling

He kin get a libin' one way or de oder — education and labor braided together as the race's path forward.
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