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Lydia Maria Child
What did Lydia Maria Child mean by “the slave spirit,” in her essay "Prejudices Against People of Color?"
Lydia Maria Child was an early abolitionist who lived in Massachusetts. She pointed out early in this essay that the people of the North, while no longer holding slaves, still had the "spirit" of...
Lydia Maria Child
How did the spirit of slavery manifest itself in the North according to Lydia Maria Child?
Hailing from Massachusetts, Child was a northerner in the years leading up to the Civil War. She became a very strong abolitionist as a young adult and used her voice as a well-known author to...