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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
Lydia Maria Child was a noted abolitionist, women's rights advocate, scholar and popular author. This publication was the first book of the American abolitionist movement, and it is one of the key documents in the movement.
Anti-Slavery Catechism
Lydia Maria Child was one of the first American women to make a career from her writing. She completed her first novel at the age of 22. In the Anti-Slavery Catechism, Child has appropriated a format usually reserved for religion, thereby infusing…
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Edited by L. Maria Child
The first slave narrative written by a woman.
Letters of Child, Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier Appendix by Wendell Phillips
The appendix comprises a bibliographical list of Mrs. Child's writings and Phillips' remarks at her funeral in 1880. This selection of letters emphasized Child's role as an abolitionist.
The American Frugal Housewife. Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy
Originally published in 1829, this domestic manual, The American Frugal Housewife, contains Child’s household hints, cheap recipes, and budgeting information. It is unique in that she wrote it for lower and middle class women. In her introduction…
The Right Way and the Safe Way, Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere...
Child’s vehement anti-slavery position was greeted with hostility and a boycott of her books. This pamphlet calls for immediate emancipation.