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    Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story
    Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story
    Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story
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    Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story

    By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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    'Sowing and Reaping' is a Christian-themed novel written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. She was the first African-American woman to be published in the United States. A major theme in this novel is that of the temperance movement, which is a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Harper, as one of the movement's activists, typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and its leaders emphasize alcohol's negative effects on people's health, personalities and family lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 12, 2019
    ISBN4064066213145
    Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story
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    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was an African American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, and novelist. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper became one of the first women of color to publish a work of literature in the United States when her debut poetry collection Forest Leaves appeared in 1845. In 1850, she began to teach sewing at Union Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. The following year, alongside chairman of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society William Still, she began working as an abolitionist in earnest, helping slaves escape to Canada along the Underground Railroad. In 1854, having established herself as a prominent public speaker and political activist, Harper published Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, a resounding critical and commercial success. Over the course of her life, Harper founded and participated in several progressive organizations, including the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the National Association of Colored Women. At the age of sixty-seven, Harper published Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, becoming one of the first African American women to publish a novel.

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