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novel by Frances Harper

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, an novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman.

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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.

Characters

Iola Leroy and family

Iola Leroy, the principal character of the novel.

Harriet Johnson, Iola Leroy's grandmother. While a slave of Nancy Johnson, she resists a whipping. As a punishment, she is sold.

Robert Johnson.

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He is still a child when separated from his mother Harriet. His enslaver, Nancy Johnson, sees him as a "pet animal"^[1] and teaches him to read. As a young man, he becomes the leader of a group of slaves who decide to seek refuge with the Union army during the Civil War. He enlists in a colo Home - Leroy New NALU