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A letter from Frances Harper to the 21st century 

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A letter from Frances Harper to the 21st century 

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Dear people of the twenty-first-century, It seems like rights have made it a long way from when I was living. But it seems that y'all and this system have a much more longer way to go. Henceforth all the movements I was apart of. Such as the abolition movement for the twenty first century which is now called BLM movement I think? The temperance movement which is many things now, women's suffrage movement I think is still a thing which is called the women's rights movement; but for all women now, and the  gender equality movement.  They have got a bit better but yet are still obsequious. If y'all want change just like we wanted it y'all are going to have to recognize y'alls podsnappery. if you continue to fight for your rights and push for what right, you'll really feel mafficking. You shall stop this hate and continue to push for what is right!

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what it was like and why we should know about this. 

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What it was like for Frances and the movements she was in at this time period. 

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What it was like for Frances and the movements she was in at this time period. 

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In the time period Frances lived in, things were extremely brutal. For some African Americans Life on the fields meant working sunup to sundown six days a week and having food sometimes not suitable for an animal to eat. Plantation slaves lived in small shacks with a dirt floor and little or no furniture. Life on large plantations with a cruel overseer was oftentimes the worst. Un-free African Americans were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding, rape, and imprisonment. Punishment was often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but sometimes abuse was performed to re-assert the dominance of the master. Some disobediences that they could be punished for were, reading, taking a break, eating on slave owners property, being on segregated land, doing thing on segregated land, breaking the jim crow laws ,not whistling while charring food, being late, and not picking cotton fast enough. During Her time period the cotton gin had already been invented. That increased demand and prices for cotton led to plantations owners to search for land in the west. The invention of cotton gin in 1793 allowed for much greater productivity than the manual separation of cotton. The result was an explosive growth in demand of slaves for cotton cultivation. and in 1793 the fugitive slave law was passed. Frances was born free, but this law made all of the things that were happening in her time period become a possibility to happen to her.  Luckily this possibility didn't become a reality for her in her youth, but it did when she became older. Her state she lived in when she was younger enacted and passed the fugitive slave law along with many other states. She wanted to help, while being in fear of the inequalities. She became part of the abolition movement, temperance movement, public education movement, women's suffrage movement (especially for women of color), and gender equality movement.

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Some people used to fear that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system, which relied on slaves' dependence on their owners. White people in many colonies instituted laws forbidding slaves to learn to read or write and making it a crime for others to teach them. Even free black people weren't allowed to learn how to read. This is incredible because Harper frances, A free African-American women, knew how to fully read in 1872 because it was illegal in the 1830's through then. But she was learning how to read before then and was writing poetry, which she could have been severely punished for, even as a free person. She was the first actual Black women to be openly known and release her books that went onto help the movements that she was supporting. Her poetry and essays are significant because she used them as vehicles to comment upon the experiences of African Americans. That in some ways forced people to listen especially because she was black, And most importantly a women. Women weren't supposed to know how to read either. This is incredible because she pushed boundaries that were made not to be pushed, She made an incredible leader and difference with what she pushed for.

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Harper is important because she published Poems of Miscellaneous Subjects, which featured one of her most important famous works, "Bury Me in a Free Land." She also became an in-demand lecturer on behalf of the abolitionist movement, appearing with the likes of Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone. Not only was she the first African American woman to publish a short story, but she was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer. In addition to her rigorous lecturing schedule, Harper was also working on a second book of poems, "Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects," published in 1854. While traveling and lecturing, several thousand copies of her books were sold, and Harper donated a large portion of the proceeds to the Underground Railroad. Harper spent the rest of her career working for the pursuit of equal rights, job opportunities, and education for African American women. She also famously exposed racial inequities at an 1866 suffrage convention, “You white women speak here of rights.  She was a co-founder and vice president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and the director of the American Association of Colored Youth. If she didn't do what she did women of color would be less likely to have more rights. She is important because she exposed and pushed for the truth and demanded for equal rights. She created opportunities for herself and other. She portrayed that diversity matter, being the first to diverse. She was a leader that made sure that important change was going to happen.

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what she did and how it benefited things ( continued to uphold movements) 

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She the first African American woman to publish a short story. She wrote nine book and stories to help with the abolition movement and women's rights movements, such as the temperance movement. With that she was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer that co-founded the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and Founded National Association of Colored Women.

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What she believed in, what she fought for, how and why. (tried/how she helped African american rights) 

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During her lifetime, she advocated for abolition, temperance, public education, women's suffrage and gender equality.  Harper believed that black rights were human rights and strongly believed in equality for all things and everyone. Harper, along with Frederick Douglass and many others supported the amendment and helped to form the American Woman Suffrage Association. Especially for women of color since the first women's suffrage was only for white women. Harper pursued the rest of her life fighting for equal rights, job opportunities, and education for African American women, She was also an ardent activist in the abolitionist and women's rights movements. Harper became dedicated to the abolitionist cause a few years later after her home state of Maryland adopted the fugitive slave law in 1850. This law allowed even free Black people, such as Harper, to be arrested and sold into slavery.

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Her life: 1825-1911 ( bio and short info) 

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born in 1825, In Baltimore, Maryland. Which was a slave state, but Frances was born free due to being born to free parents. Her parents died we she was three in 1828, making her an orphan.  After, She was raised by her Aunt and Uncle. She attended school for African Americans being ran by her uncle. Frances Harper learned from her uncle's activism. She attended the her uncle's school, Watkins Academy, until she was thirteen years old.  At that age, children were typically expected to join the workforce. Harper took a job as a nursemaid and seamstress for a white family that owned a bookshop. At a young age her bright and talented traits started to show and peak. Frances began to write poetry in her youth. Frances  learned to read in, 1872. At age twenty-six, she moved to Columbus, Ohio, where she taught domestic science at Union Seminary. Then later Harper became committed to becoming an activist, especially after where she was born passed a fugitive enslaved people law. This law allowed even free Black people, such as Harper, to be arrested and sold into slavery. Which began her strong fight and solid beliefs for equal rights.