The Travels of Frances Harper
In the South
Slave cabin on the Magnolia Plantation in South Carolina. Frances would have stayed in cabins like this when she traveled in the South.
Magnolia plantation. Frances was appalled at the luxury that former enslavers had enjoyed.
The “First White House of the Confederacy.” Frances stayed here after the Civil War, astonished at how the tables had turned.
The Mississippi, view from Vicksburg.