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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Lydia Maria Child"”.
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The Radical Frances Wright and Antebellum Evangelical Reviewers: Self-Silencing in the Works of Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Maria Child, and Eliza Cabot Follen
… libertarian leaders by boarding poor and wealthy children equally together from infancy; she hoped to stimulate through an amalgamation of the races the organic attenuation of American slavery over three generations. Wright circulated her theories through radical newspapers, but received little …
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From exile to transcendence: racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer
… to Transcendences focuses on five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer. It examines each author’s effort to represent the mixed-race character as a constant “process of becoming” (Hall, Questions of Identity 4). This study aims to …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville, articulated their criticisms of slavery and the law through their speeches, editorials, essays, and fiction and contributed to the culture of criticism that highlighted both the differences between …
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Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and Emancipation During the Civil War (Slavery, Feminism, Woman's Rights)
… Intellectuals such as Julia Ward Howe and Lydia Maria Child used their writing skills to encourage public support for antislavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the "little lady" who allegedly caused the big war, took advantage of her enormous popularity in England to urge British support for the …
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Composing the body: narrative in the age of improvisation, 1770-1867
… But other authors, including Herman Melville and Lydia Maria Child, took up the intersection of white and black musicality to recommend a new form of sympathetic listening, thereby challenging the nation’s dominate attitudes toward race.
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Signifying in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' Use of African American English
… evidence for refuting then-current claims that Lydia Maria Child was the author of this engrossing story. Child was indeed the book's editor, but Yellin discovered letters from Jacobs among the papers of abolitionist Amy Post that proved that the ex-slave was the author of her own narrative. …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… turning to a diverse range of works by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, Dion Bouicault, Harriet Jacobs, and E.Pauline Johnson, “The Grammar of Kinship” examines how enslaved and formerly enslaved Afro-Cherokees, African American and Indigenous writers produced radical responses to the …
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The Hands of Labor: Depictions of Antebellum Authorship and the Shaping of Class In the Willis Family (Nathaniel Parker Willis, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Jacobs)
… authors and their wider circle, which included Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, performed authorship in ways that resulted in a blend of labor ideologies based on personal experience and familial interactions.</p> <p>In examining those depictions we can see that …
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Women of the spheres: Early American women rhetoricians
… analysis of conduct books by Catharine Beecher, Lydia Sigourney, and Lydia Maria Child.
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The work of death in the Americas
This dissertation is a transnational study that argues that a structure of mourning, spoken through and effected by the historical romance, underlies the narrative of national culture as it emerges in the Americas during the early nineteenth century. The writing, consumption and preservation of …