er is rapidly increasing; and ere many
years there will be no lack of representative Colored men.[128]

Colored women had fewer privileges of education before the war, and
indeed since the war, than the men of their race, yet, nevertheless,
many of these women have shown themselves capable and useful.

FRANCES ELLEN HARPER

was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1825. She was not permitted to
enjoy the blessings of early educational training, but in after-years
proved herself to be a woman of most remarkable intellectual powers.
She applied herself to study, most assiduously; and when she had
reached woman's estate was well educated.

She developed early a fondness for poetry, which she has since
cultivated; and some of her efforts are not without merit. She excels
as an essayist and lecturer. She has been heard upon many of the
leading lecture platforms of the country; and her efforts to elevate
her sisters have been crowned with most signal success.

MARY ANN SHADD CAREY,

of Delaware, but more recently of Washington, D. C., as a lecturer,
writer, and school teacher, has done and is doing a great deal for the
educational and social advancement of the Colored people.

FANNY M. JACKSON--

at present Mrs. Fanny M. Jackson Coppin--was born in the District of
Columbia, in 1837. Though left an orphan when quite a child, Mrs.
Sarah Clark, her aunt, took charge of her, and gave her a first-class
education. She prosecuted the gentlemen's course in Oberlin College,
and graduated with high honors.

Deeply impressed with the need of educated teachers for the schools of
her race, she accepted a position at once in the Institute for Colored
Youth, at Philadelphia, Pa. And here for many years she has taught
with eminent success, and exerted a pure and womanly influence upon
all the students that have come into her classes.

Without doubt she is the most thoroughly competent and successful of
the Colored women teachers of her time. And her example of race pride,
industry, enthusiasm, and nobility of character will remain the
inheritance and inspiration of the pupils of the school she helped
make the pride of the Colored people of Pennsylvania.

LOUISE DE MORTIE,

of Norfolk, Virginia, was born of free parents in that place, in 1833,
but being denied the privileges of education, turned her face toward
Massachusetts.

In 1853 she took up her residence in Boston. She immediately began to
avail herself of all the op