Frances Ellen Harper lectured

Mrs. Frances Ellen Harper     This eminent anti-slavery lecturer, of long standing, delivered one of her able and eloquent addresses on “The Mission of the War”, Sunday evening, Oct. 23, 1864.  It was highly appreciated by and large audience which crowded the meeting-house of the first Independent Baptist Church…….Mrs. Harper is better known by her former name —Frances Ellen Watkins.  Address, No. 9 Gardner street, Boston, Mass.

                           (Liberator,  Oct 28, 1864, pg3)