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Lydia Maria Child Letter to Edmund Quincy
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Lydia Child was born in Massachusetts and became known as an abolitionist for her tract entitled "Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans" (1833). Child's letters to the Governor of Virginia were eventually published as an abolitionist book and she also authored a novel entitled "Hobomok" a story about Native Americans in colonial Massachusetts.
Letter to Edmund Quincy requesting a satirical article for the NATIONAL SLAVERY STANDARD concerning the economic drain caused by slavery.
Purchased from Freeman's, May 26, 1971.
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- Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services
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- December 2023
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