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(Note: Both Leroys have a majority of white ancestry.) She meets a newfound uncle, Robert Johnson, who introduces her to her dark-skinned maternal grandmother Harriet, of mostly African descent. After the war, Leroy continues to identify as black. She declines to pass for white when her New England suitor, Dr. Gresham, makes it a condition of his proposal of marriage. He wants her to promise never to reveal her African ancestry. Leroy marries Dr. Frank Latimer, a man of mixed ancestry who also identifies with the black community. They return to North Carolina to fight for racial uplift. After a series of coincidences, Iola Leroy Latimer reunites with her surviving Leroy family members after the war..... Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 - February 22, 1911) was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. 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