Front Cover: Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper photograph, ca. 1890, Historical Society of Pennsylvania portrait collection (Collection V88), HSP, https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/13153. Author, temperance advocate, and women’s and Black rights activist Frances E. W. Harper, who spent much of her adult life in Philadelphia, appears in two articles in this volume. In “ ‘To Participate in the Knowledge of Piety, Truth and Justice’: African American Women and the Jeremiadic Calls for Equality in Antebellum Philadelphia,” Lacey Hunter locates Harper within a longer tradition of Black women’s thought that combined biblical and American revolutionary rhetoric to call for greater rights. Jessica Conrad’s article “Interfering Women: Consumer Activism, Charity, and Women’s Rights in Frances Harper’s Sowing and Reaping” parses Harper’s fiction, explicating the author’s temperance novel as a reflection of her politics. Developing her own version of pocketbook politics, Harper argued that abstinence from alcohol was one key to Black women’s equality.