Minnie's Sacrifice

Minnie's Sacrifice was written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harpe. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24 1825 - February 22 1911) was an African-American abolitionist suffragist poet teacher public speaker and writer. The topics she wrote and spoke about include: enslavement and abolitionism human rights and dignity women's rights and equality racial and social justice lynching and mob violence voting rights moral character racial self-help and uplift and multiracial cooperation for common good. She was active in social reform and was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union which advocated the federal government taking a role in progressive reform. She is considered the mother of African-American journalism.