Lydia Maria Child's Literary Activism

Lydia Maria Child's Literary Activism

Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child was a female abolitionist active as a writer and editor. In her 1833 book, *An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans*, she severely criticized slavery, stirring major debate in northern society. She continued her journalistic activities advocating for the equality of women and Black people, and became widely known in the fields of domestic and children's literature as well.

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Year Lydia Maria Child
1799
Marriage (Moses Brown and Phoebe Lockwood, Age: 3 years before birth, Period: 1799, Location: Rhode Island)
1802
Birth of Lydia Maria Child (Period: February 11, 1802, Location: Medford, Massachusetts, United States)
1828
Marriage (Lydia Maria Child, David Lee Child, Age: 26 years old, Period: October 3, 1828, Location: Massachusetts, United States)
1830
Activities in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1830s–1840s, Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1833
Publication of "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans" (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1833, Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1841
Editing of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1841–1843, Location: New York, New York, United States)
1859
John Brown support activities (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1859, Location: Around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States (present-day))
1861
American Civil War (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: North Carolina, Virginia, etc.)
Editorial cooperation for "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1861, Location: United States)
1868
Publication of "An Appeal for the Indians" (Age: 65 years old, Period: 1868, Location: United States)
1880
Death of Lydia Maria Child (Age: 78 years old, Period: October 20, 1880)

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