Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, died February 22, 1911
I ask no monument, proud and high,
To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;
All that my yearning spirit craves,
Is bury me not in a land of slaves.
~ "Bury Me in a Free Land", a poem by Frances Harper
Frances died at the age of 85.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Harper


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