Reconstructing Racial Identity in Post-Bellum America

(Hopkins 1900

One of the most prominent African American authors connected with the Reconstruction Era was Frances E .W . Harper . Harper 's writing concerned up-to-date problems such as racism and rights of women . She was a member of the Anti-Slavery Society in America and was also a traveling lecturer

Harper applied her writing skills to describe her social and political opinion . She attempted to teach the audience on unfairness of depression and racism . Harper applied similar religious stories as Moses believing that people were able to recognize it . Her stories were

considered to be a teaching and propaganda against racism and unfair treatment towards women . Harper 's writing affected the points of view of white and black readers in the course of Reconstruction Era ( Harper 1988

Harper is also famous for her Songs for the people ' that remonstrates a protest against slavery ( Harper 1988

She also tells about the awful world she and the people live in , about all the problems and conflicts , about discrimination and unfairness and cruelty of her time political system

Our world , so warn and weary

Needs music , pure and strong

To hush the jangle and discords

Of sorrow , pain , and wrong (Harper 1988

Authors ' writings of that period let economic and political policies change and get a new shape as some aspects written in those works made people revise their views concerning human life and the world in general

A great example of influence of Reconstruction Era literature on the nation 's attempt to get freedom was their striving to be educated Before , slaves didn 't have any rights to study and get education . During Reconstruction Era , freed people rushed to schools to attend lessons . A wish for liberty and development of themselves also determined African-American freedom definition of economics . Thus , black people didn 't...