Iola Leroy

Author/Contributor(s):	Harper, Frances
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Date:	12/10/1999
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Iola Leroy was originally published in 1892, during a time of black disenfranchisement, lynching, and Jim Crow laws. It is the story of a "refined mulatto" raised to believe she's white until she and her mother are sold into slavery. Iola becomes an outspoken advocate for her people and a critic of race-mixing. Her story offers an important portrait of black life during the Civil War and Reconstruction.