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'''Lydia Maria Child''' ([[February 11]] [[1802]] – [[July 7]] [[1880]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[abolitionist]], [[women's rights]] activist, opponent of American [[expansionism]], Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist. |
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She is perhaps most remembered for her poem, ''[[Over the River and Through the Woods]]''. (Her [[Grandfather's House|grandfather's house]], restored by [[Tufts University]] in 1976, still stands near the [[Mystic River]] on South Street in [[Medford, Massachusetts]].) |
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==Early life== |
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She was born in [[Medford, Massachusetts]], to Susannah Rand Francis and Convers Francis. She was the wife of [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] lawyer David Lee Child. She was a long-time friend of [[Margaret Fuller]] and frequent participant in Fuller's "conversations" held at [[Elizabeth Palmer Peabody]]'s North Street bookstore in [[Boston]]. |
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==Activist work== |
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She was a women's rights activist, but did not believe significant progress for women could be made until after the abolition of [[slavery]]. Her 1833 book ''An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans'' argued in favor of the immediate [[abolitionism|emancipation]] of the slaves, and she is sometimes said to have been the first white person to have written a book in support of this policy. |
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In 1839, she was elected to the executive committee of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]], and became editor of the society's ''National Anti-Slavery Standard'' in 1841. In 1861, Child helped [[Harriet Ann Jacobs]], with her ''Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl''. |
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During the [[1860s]], Child wrote pamphlets on Indian rights. The most prominent, ''An Appeal for the Indians'' (1868), called upon government officials, as well as religious leaders, to bring justice to American Indians. Her presentation sparked [[Peter Cooper]]'s interest in Indian issues, and led to the founding of the US Board of Indian Commissioners and the subsequent Peace Policy in the administration of [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. |
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She died in [[Wayland, Massachusetts]], aged 78. |
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==Publications== |
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* ''Hobomok: A tale of Early Times, by an American'' (1824) |
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* ''The Rebels'' (1825). |
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* ''Juvenile Miscellany'' (1826) |
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* ''The First Settlers of New England'' (1828) |
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* ''The Frugal Housewife'' (1829) |
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* ''The Mother's Book'' (1831) |
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* ''An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans'' (1833) |
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* ''Letters from New York'' (1843) |
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* ''Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life'' (1853) |
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* ''The Freedmen's Book'' (1865) |
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* "A Romance of the Republic" (1867) |
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* ''An appeal for the Indians'' (1868) |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/lydiamariachild.html Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist:Lydia Maria Child] |
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20030223083214/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/first/lmfc.html UVA: Etexts for Lydia Child] |
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*[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASchild.htm Biography from Spartacus Educational] |
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*[http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/rec_acq/lit/child.html UVA: Freedman's Book] |
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*[http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/books/book_06.cfm The Frugal Housewife, Dedicated to Those Who Are Not] |
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*[http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/authors/author_child.html Biography at Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project] |
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* [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/child/book/book.html The Mother's Book] |
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* {{gutenberg author| id=Child+Lydia+Maria+Francis | name=Lydia Child}} |
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[[Category:1802 births]] |
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[[Category:1880 deaths]] |
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[[Category:American abolitionists]] |
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[[Category:American novelists]] |
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[[Category:American women's rights activists]] |
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[[Category:Native Americans' rights activists]] |
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[[Category:People from Middlesex County, Massachusetts]] |
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[[Category:American Unitarians]] |
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Revision as of 22:59, 26 January 2008
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