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... America no more heroic work has been done than that performed by the Negro woman . The great responsibilities of life have naturally drifted to the men ; but who can measure the pa- tience , the love , the self - sacrifice of those who ...
... America no more heroic work has been done than that performed by the Negro woman . The great responsibilities of life have naturally drifted to the men ; but who can measure the pa- tience , the love , the self - sacrifice of those who ...
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... Americans of her time . By her tact and her gift of song she kept down ridicule , and by her fervor and faith she won many friends for the anti- slavery cause . It was impossible of course for any single woman to carry on the tradition ...
... Americans of her time . By her tact and her gift of song she kept down ridicule , and by her fervor and faith she won many friends for the anti- slavery cause . It was impossible of course for any single woman to carry on the tradition ...
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... America . Important also in this connection is the very great contribu- tion that Negro women - very often those without education and opportunity - are making in the ordinary industrial life of the country . According to the census of ...
... America . Important also in this connection is the very great contribu- tion that Negro women - very often those without education and opportunity - are making in the ordinary industrial life of the country . According to the census of ...
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... America should be one of outstanding piety and nobility of soul . Just a few years before the Civil War Frances Ellen Wat- kins , better known as Mrs. F. E. W. Har- per , entered upon her career as a writer of popular poetry . At the ...
... America should be one of outstanding piety and nobility of soul . Just a few years before the Civil War Frances Ellen Wat- kins , better known as Mrs. F. E. W. Har- per , entered upon her career as a writer of popular poetry . At the ...
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... A voice with a range of more than three oc- taves naturally attracted much attention in both England and America , and compari- sons with Jenny Lind , then at the height of her great fame , were frequent . In the next INTRODUCTION UCTION ...
... A voice with a range of more than three oc- taves naturally attracted much attention in both England and America , and compari- sons with Jenny Lind , then at the height of her great fame , were frequent . In the next INTRODUCTION UCTION ...
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