Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted. Illustrated

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States.
At 67, she published her widely praised novel Lola Leroy (1892), placing her among the first Black women to publish a novel.