#OnThisDay in #history - in 1825, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born in Baltimore. She was born to a free Black family but orphaned at age 3, when she was adopted by her abolitionist minister uncle. As a young woman, she published anti-slavery poetry and was the first Black woman to publish a short story in the USA.
She was a civil rights activist, gave lectures on abolition, & after the Civil War moved to the South to provide education to the newly freed people. #OTD#histodons@histodons
