Lydia Maria Child: The Quest for Racial Justice

by Lori Kenschaft

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Lydia Maria Child presents the life of the dynamic nineteenth-century writer who, through her pen and at great personal cost to her literary career, spoke out for those silenced in society -- slaves, Native Americans, women, and the poor. At the dawn of the 1830s, Lydia Maria Child was a celebrated author, known for her popular domestic handbook, The Frugal Housewife, and Hobomok, a novel of American Indian life. In 1833, with the publication of her controversial Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, Child's life changed dramatically from literary figure to antislavery activist. Her...Read more
  • ISBN10 661056423X
  • ISBN13 9786610564231
  • Publish Date 1 January 2002
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 29 February 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 126
  • Language English