Elizabeth Johnson Harris was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1867 to parents who had been slaves.

 

 

Elizabeth Johnson Harris:
Life Story
Online Archival Collections
Special Collections Library, Duke University
Her 85 page handwritten memoir provides glimpses of her early childhood, of race relations, of her own ambivalence about her place as an African-American in society, and of the importance of religion and education in her life.

This on-line collection includes full text of her memoirs as well as several of her poems and vignettes that were published in various newspapers during her lifetime.

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