{"id":42194,"date":"2017-09-24T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=42194"},"modified":"2017-09-23T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T01:12:32","slug":"happy-birthday-2-ya-frances-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=42194","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday 2 Ya &#8220;Frances Harper&#8221; Abolitionist, Suffragist &#038; Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Frances-Harper-Black-History-African-History-e1506100148518-560x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Frances-Harper-Black-History-African-History-e1506100148518-560x666.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Frances-Harper-Black-History-African-History-e1506100148518-768x914.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Frances-Harper-Black-History-African-History-e1506100148518.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><strong>Frances E.W. Harper<\/strong>, born September 24, 1825,\u00a0was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author.\u00a0 In 1845, Harper published her first collection of poetry, titled <em>Forest Leaves<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Poems of Miscellaneous Subjects-\u00a0<\/em>which featured one of her most famous works, <em>Bury Me in a Free Land<\/em>. She also became an in-demand lecturer on behalf of the abolitionist movement, appearing with the likes of <strong>Frederick Douglass<\/strong>, <strong>William Garrison<\/strong>, <strong>Lucretia Mott<\/strong> and <strong>Lucy Stone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harper published her most famous novel <em>Iola Leroy<\/em> in 1892. Four years later, she cofounded the <strong>National Association of Colored Women<\/strong> with <strong>Ida Wells-Barnett<\/strong>, <strong>Harriet Tubman<\/strong> and several others. The organization sought to improve the lives and advance the rights of African-American women. (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/frances-ew-harper-40710\">biography.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances E.W. Harper, born September 24, 1825,\u00a0was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author.\u00a0 In 1845, Harper published her first collection of poetry, titled Forest Leaves, and\u00a0Poems of Miscellaneous Subjects-\u00a0which featured one of her most famous works, Bury Me in a Free Land. She also became an in-demand lecturer on behalf of the abolitionist movement, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[3234,7685,7684,7687,7692,7691,7689,7690,7479,7686,7688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42207,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42194\/revisions\/42207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}