Returning Voices
Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA woman separated from her family by slavery and later reunited with them uses that reunion to argue, forcefully, for the dignity and uplift of her whole community. Harper was already a prominent poet and activist before she wrote it, and the novel carries that public conviction on every page. It insists on hope without ever pretending the cost of it away.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Where to find it
- On the Returning Voices shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #12352. In the public domain in the United States.