Eliza Suggs

Eliza Suggs
A photographic portrait from 1906 of a small African-American woman, seated, hands folded in lap. She is wearing a voluminous long-sleeved dress with a white collar.
Eliza Suggs, from the frontispiece of her Shadow and Sunshine (1906).
BornDecember 11, 1876
Bureau County, Illinois, US
DiedJanuary 29, 1908 (aged 31)
Orleans, Nebraska, US
Occupation(s)Temperance activist, Christian speaker, memoirist

Elizabeth Gertrude Suggs (December 11, 1876 – January 29, 1908) was a 19th-century American author, born to former slaves. Physically impaired with osteogenesis imperfecta, she was able to gain an education and became known as a temperance lecturer. The little that is known about Eliza Suggs can be found in her book, Shadow and Sunshine, published in 1906.[1][2]

  1. ^ "A Slave's Story: Eliza Suggs's "Shadow and Sunshine"". Schoollibraryjournal.com.
  2. ^ Eliza Suggs. "Shadow and Sunshine". The University of North Carolina Library.