d, in the Independent in noticing a Course of Lectures in
which Mrs. Harper spoke (in Philadelphia) pays this tribute to her:

"Next on the course was Mrs Harper, a colored woman; about as
colored as some of the Cuban belles I have met with at Saratoga.
She has a noble head, this bronze muse; a strong face, with a
shadowed glow upon it, indicative of thoughtful fervor, and of a
nature most femininely sensitive, but not in the least morbid.
Her form is delicate, her hands daintily small. She stands
quietly beside her desk, and speaks without notes, with gestures
few and fitting. Her manner is marked by dignity and composure.
She is never assuming, never theatrical. In the first part of
her lecture she was most impressive in her pleading for the race
with whom her lot is cast. There was something touching in her
attitude as their representative. The woe of two hundred years
sighed through her tones. Every glance of her sad eyes was a
mournful remonstrance against injustice and wrong. Feeling on
her soul, as she must have felt it, the chilling weight of
caste, she seemed to say:

'I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once Eleotra her sepulchral urn.'

... As I listened to her, there swept over me, in a chill wave
of horror, the realization that this noble woman had she not
been rescued from her mother's condition, might have been sold
on the auction-block, to the highest bidder--her intellect,
fancy, eloquence, the flashing wit, that might make the delight
of a Parisian saloon, and her pure, Christian character all
thrown in--the recollection that women like her could be dragged
out of public conveyances in our own city, or frowned out of
fashionable churches by Anglo-Saxon saints."

THE END.

INDEX.

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PREFACE, 1-6.

ILLUSTRATIONS, 7, 8.

CONTENTS, 9-21.

Anthony, Kit, and wife Leah, and three children,
Adam, Mary, and Murry, 99.

Amby, Nat, 102.

Amby, Elizabeth, 102.

Augusta, John, (letter.) 110.

Anderson, Henry, alias Wm.