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Geraldine Brooks’s Sympathy For Her Black Protagonists Isn’t Sufficient

It was there, with the Civil War looming, that she determined to commit her writing skills to the antislavery effort. With the help of William Still—father of the Underground Railroad—Harper’s poem Eliza Harris and different works had been printed in abolitionist newspapers including the Liberator and Frederick Douglass’ North Star. After leaving Philadelphia in 1854, …

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Geraldine Brooks’s Sympathy For Her Black Protagonists Isn’t Sufficient

It was there, with the Civil War looming, that she determined to commit her writing skills to the antislavery effort. With the help of William Still—father of the Underground Railroad—Harper’s poem Eliza Harris and different works had been printed in abolitionist newspapers including the Liberator and Frederick Douglass’ North Star. After leaving Philadelphia in 1854, …

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Geraldine Brooks’s Sympathy For Her Black Protagonists Isn’t Sufficient

It was there, with the Civil War looming, that she determined to commit her writing skills to the antislavery effort. With the help of William Still—father of the Underground Railroad—Harper’s poem Eliza Harris and different works had been printed in abolitionist newspapers including the Liberator and Frederick Douglass’ North Star. After leaving Philadelphia in 1854, …

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Congress for passage of the ill-fated Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. In her later life, her poems have been printed in distinguished Black newspapers and magazines such as the Crisis, Ebony and Topaz. Terrell’s ardour for activism arose in 1892 after an old good friend was lynched by a mob of whites in Memphis just because his …

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