Lydia Maria Child, Selected Letters, 1817-1880
Author: Lydia Maria Child
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 614
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Author: Lydia Maria Child
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia G. Holland
Publisher: Gutstein Family Trust
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lydia Maria Child
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 97
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia G. Holland
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Published: 1980
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lydia Maria Child
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 97
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Milton Meltzer
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780822319498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rich collection is the first to represent the full range of Child's contributions as a literary innovator, social reformer, and progressive thinker over a career spanning six decades.
Author: Lydia Maria Child
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lydia Moland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-10-07
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 022671571X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was for a time one of America's most beloved authors, known for household manuals and children's poems, including the immortal "Over the River and Through the Wood." But in 1833, having converted to the abolitionist cause, Child published An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, the first book-length condemnation of slavery printed in the United States. Child's book created an immediate uproar and catapulted her into the life of an activist. Lydia Maria Child became one of the most consequential radicals of nineteenth-century America. In this biography of Child, Lydia Moland foregrounds Child's struggles of conscience and the meaning they held for her life-and, potentially, for ours. In her first career, Lydia Maria Child achieved what almost no woman in history had before-she was a self-sufficient female author. What, then, made her throw it all away to write An Appeal? The scandal of that book caused sales of her other books to plummet, polite society to cast her out, her beloved husband David to be jailed for libel, and the two rendered penniless. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the cause of abolition with her writings and her deeds. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Charles Sumner both credit her with their conversion. During the Civil War, the Union Army distributed her words to 300,000 troops to help weary soldiers justify their sacrifice. She spirited endangered abolitionists out of the country, protected activists from angry pro-slavery mobs with her own body, and helped Harriet Jacobs edit Jacobs's autobiography, the most influential slave narrative by a woman in American history. Moland's biography restores this brave and brilliant woman to her proper place in American history while showing how her example answers these urgent questions: When confronted by sanctioned evil or systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? What prompts moral change? When do we have a duty to disobey unjust laws? Child's story is one from the past with much to teach us about our present"--
Author: James MacGregor Burns
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 859
ISBN-13: 1453245189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War. The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic’s early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from Washington to Lincoln and of lesser-known figures. Captivating and insightful, Burns’s history combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. Vineyard of Liberty is a sweeping and engrossing narrative of America’s formative years.