Iola Leroy Quotes

“It was a strange sight to see these black men rallying around the Stars and Stripes, when white men were trampling them under foot and riddling them with bullets.”
― Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

“She married Mr. Gundover's Dick.”
― Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted

“Slavery was a deadly cancer eating into the life of the nation; but, somehow, it had cast such a glamour over us that we have acted somewhat as if our national safety were better preserved by sparing the cancer than by cutting it out.”
― Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted