"Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives."

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Source: Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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Frances Harper

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Frances Harper was a 19th-century African American author and activist known for her powerful writings on racial and gender equality.

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