Lydia Maria Child : a radical American life

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Lydia Maria Child : a radical American life

Lydia Moland

University of Chicago Press, 2022

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-552) and index

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Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America's most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem "Over the River and through the Wood," Child had become famous at an early age for spunky self-help books and charming children's stories. But in 1833, Child shocked her readers by publishing the first book-length argument against slavery in the United States-a book so radical in its commitment to abolition that friends abandoned her, patrons ostracized her, and her book sales plummeted. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the abolitionist cause, becoming one of the foremost authors and activists of her generation. Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life tells the story of what brought Child to this moment and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child's example, philosopher Lydia Moland asks questions as pressing and personal in our time as they were in Child's: What does it mean to change your life when the moral future of your country is at stake? When confronted by sanctioned evil and systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? Child's lifetime of bravery, conviction, humility, and determination provides a wealth of spirited guidance for political engagement today.

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List of Illustrations A Personal Prologue 1 By an American 2 A Love Not Ashamed of Economy 3 Let Us Not Flatter Ourselves 4 Of Mobs and Marriages 5 How Does it Feel to Be a Question? 6 On Resistance 7 The Workshop of Reform 8 On Quitting and Not Giving Up 9 First Duties First, and How to Do Your Second Duties Too 10 Keep Firing 11 On Delicate Ears and Indelicate Truths 12 A Warning or an Example 13 No Time for Ovations 14 Truly Living Now Epilogue Acknowledgments Illustration Credits List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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