The Freedmen’s Book

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Lydia Maria Child gathered this set of short tales and verses by earlier slaves and notable activists as an encouragement to emancipated slaves. In her commitment to the freedmen, she motivates those who can leaf through these tales verbally to others to communicate the strong points, bravery and achievements of black men and women.

Lydia Maria Francis Child or Lydia Maria Francis was a US abolitionist, women’s rights activist, Native American rights activist, writer, journalist, and challenger of American imperialism.

Her journals, both creative writing and local handbooks, got more readers between 1820 and 1850. Sometimes she surprised her readers as she attempted to tackle on problems of both male supremacy and white sovereignty in a few of her tales.

In spite of these issues, Lydia might be much commemorated for her verse, Over the River and Through the Wood. Her grandparents’ dwelling, which she drafted of dropping by, was brought back by Tufts University in 1976 and rests closer to the Mystic River on South Street, in Medford, Massachusetts.

Her elder brother, Convers Francis, studied at Harvard College and Seminary, and became a Unitarian minister. Lydia enrolled at a provincial all female school and then at a women’s academy. When her mother died, she moved with her elder sister in Maine, where she took up education. At that time, her brother Convers, saw to his younger sister’s instruction in such literary masters as Homer and Milton.

Lydia happened to browse through an essay in the North American Review detailing the subject suggested to the writer by the ancient history of New England. Though she did not think of writing novels, she instantly penned the first part of her book Hobomok. Urged by her brother’s approbation, she completed it in 6 weeks and had it printed. She crafted more stories unceasingly from that moment on.
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