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Over the River… Life of Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist for Freedom, a companion version of the epic documentary, is a rich description of Child’s major literary participation in changing the social conditions during the19th-century, high-lighting issues that were and are still very relevant today. Few Americans realize that the struggle to end slavery in America actually started over 50 years before the Emancipation Proclamation by folks called abolitionists.
Lydia Maria Child is one of those heroes who were nearly forgotten, but for her Thanksgiving Day poem turned song, Over the River and through the Woods to Grandmother’s House We Go.
Over a career of advocacy that lasted until her death in 1880, Child published countless other works promoting racial justice and equality–tracts, biographies, newspaper articles, letters to politicians, stories, a novel presenting intermarriage as the solution to America’s race problem (A Romance of the Republic, 1867), and a primer for the emancipated slaves featuring readings by and about people of African descent (The Freedmen’s Book, 1865). In addition, she edited a major abolitionist newspaper, the National Anti-Slavery Standard (1841-43), and a slave narrative now considered a literary classic, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).
Child’s prodigious record as an activist for racial equality. A century and a quarter after Child’s death, her legacy remains vital to those who share her vision of a society in which people of all races, religions, and national origins can live harmoniously together as equals.
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