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Lydia Maria Child
Books
Child, Lydia Maria Franics. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans.
Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833.
This work brought Child to the forefront of the antislavery cause at the expense of her flourishing literary career.
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Newspapers
National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY) 1840-1870.
This paper is billed as the official organ of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Child edited this newspaper from 1841 to 1843.
Websites
The Antislavery Literature Project
This digital archive contains historical and contemporary accounts of slavery. One will
find a wealth of material by or about Lydia Maria Child. This site is maintained by the
English Department
of Arizona State University
and the EServer
at Iowa State University’s English Department.
Child, Lydia Maria. “Slavery’s Pleasant Homes” and Other Writings from The Liberty Bell. This site contains several items authored by Child. Part of The Online Archive of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women’s Writings, edited by Glynis Carr.
Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason, of Virginia
This American Anti-Slavery Tract contains a heated exchange of letters between Lydia Maria Child, Governor Wise of Virginia,
and a Mrs. Mason of Alto, Virginia regarding John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. Also included is correspondence between Child and Brown.
This document is part of the African-American Perspectives Pamphlets of the Library of Congress.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
This digital repository makes available collections from numerous research libraries. Use the
Catalog for locating
items about Lydia Maria Child.
Internet Archive
This digital library provides a gateway to online documents by or about Lydia Maria Child.
The Liberator Files
This site maintained by Horace Sheldon contains articles from The Liberator, including
several authored by or about Lydia Maria Child.
Lydia Maria Francis Child Papers
This page provides information regarding to the Child Papers at the
William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan.
A brief
biography may also be accessed via this page.
Lydia Maria Child
Provides an overview of Child’s life and involvement in antislavery societies. Sources for further study are contained at the
bottom. Joan Goodwin authored this biography for the
Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
Making of America (MOA) - Joint venture between Cornell University and the University of Michigan.
This digital library contains scanned images of US primary and secondary sources from 1850 to 1877. Materials pertaining to Lydia Maria Child
are available. The Cornell
version focuses on popular journals of the time. The
University of Michigan version focuses on books/monographs.
The Patriarchal Institution, as Described by Members of its Own Family. Comp. by L. Maria Child
This pamphlet, published in 1860 by the American Anti-Slavery Society, contains a listing of quotes regarding slavery.
Part of the Library of Congress
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909.
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
The Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections maintains this excellent resource containing
antislavery material. One may search or browse this website for digitized pamphlets authored by Lydia Maria Child.
WWHP - Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
The Worcester Women’s History Project created this brief biography about Child.
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