In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction: Special Issue

“A Pleasant Gathering of Friends”: Celebrating Frances E. W. Harper at Last

Kristin Moriah, Rafael Walker
pp. 199-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985032
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Essays

“If They Kill Me”: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Black Boatmen and the Legacy of Civil War Heroism

Susannah Sharpless
pp. 207-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985033
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Black National Housekeeping: Domesticity as Public Health in the Post-Reconstruction Works of Frances E. W. Harper

Rachel Conrad Bracken
pp. 233-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985034
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To “Every Hater of American Despotism”: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Correspondence in the Nineteenth-Century Black Press

Alexandra Burgess
pp. 261-275
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985035
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The Stateswoman-Poet

Matt Sandler
pp. 279-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985036
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Frances E. W. Harper’s Radical Black Feminist Politics in The Underground Railroad

Sabrina Evans
pp. 295-321
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985037
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“A Delicious Sense of Joy and Love”: On Centering Black Women Readers and Black Domestic Idealism in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy

Danielle Procope Bell
pp. 323-347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985038
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To Calmly Rest: Frances E. W. Harper’s Sensational Black Disability Poetics

Vivian Delchamps Wolf
pp. 349-365
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985039
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Pleasure Reading

The Pleasures of Harper’s Peripheral Verse

Magdalena Zapędowska
pp. 367-375
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985040
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Afterword

A Woman of Her Time . . . and Ours

Koritha Mitchell
pp. 377-382
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985041
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Author Bios

Author Bios

pp. 383-385
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a985042
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