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| Author | Frances E. W. Harper |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Social novel |
| Set in | USA, about 1840-80 |
| Publisher | James H. Earle |
Publication date | 1892 |
| Publication place | USA |
| Pages | iv, 282 |
| Text | Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted at Wikisource |
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it also deals with serious social issues of education for women, passing, miscegenation, abolition, reconstruction, temperance, and social responsibility.