Frances E. W. Harper

"The Slave Mother"
Biography
<Tab/>Although Frances Harper was not born into a slave family in 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, she nevertheless suffered from the oppressive slave laws and rampant discrimination of the time. Her mother died when she was three, falling into the care of her aunt and uncle. Until the age of thirteen, she attended the free school for colored children in which her uncle, Rev. William Watkins, taught. Despite the many trying times that she underwent and survived, her natural curiosity and gift for writing distinguished from her peers. The prose and p…