Harper's novels were designed for political and religious advocacy, and were especially concerned about racial identity and commitment to social change.
Her earlier novels, Minnie's Sacrifice (1869), Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story (1876–1887), and Trial and Triumph (1888–1889), appeared in serialized form in the Christian Recorder, a periodical published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Iola Leroy was published during the latter years of Harper's prolific career as a poet, essayist, and short story and prose author. Since the novel appeared in the 1890s, a time when Black women's organizations surfaced throughout the country, it was widely read because it addressed pressing social and political issues affecting the Black American community in particular, lynching, race consciousness, suffrage, women's rights, and temperance are presented as key themes. Until recently it was considered the first novel by an African American woman published in the United States. By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was first published in 1892.
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