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    Iola Leroy
    Iola Leroy
    Iola Leroy
    Audiobook8 hours

    Iola Leroy

    Written by Frances E. W. Harper

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Later freed by the Union Army, she journeyed to find others of her family who had been disunited from each other and strewn across the south by the forces of slavery. In the process she also struggled to improve the economic and social station of African Americans. Iola Leroy is a story about race and gender roles during the antebellum and post-Civil War eras, "passing" and the associated socio-political consequences. (Summary by James K. White)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    • 3/5
      This audiobook has a chapter missing and only half of the another chapter. The audio is also a bit choppy. This is unfortunate because this is a really good story and worth a read for those wanting to learn more about the lives of African Americans during US Reconstruction.