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Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism.
- Abolitionist, feminism
- Lydia Francis, February 11, 1802, Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
- North Cemetery, Wayland, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Convers Francis (brother)
Lydia Maria Child (nacida Lydia Maria Francis, 11 de febrero de 1802 - 20 de octubre de 1880) fue una abolicionista, activista de los derechos de la mujer y de los nativos americanos, novelista, periodista y opositora al expansionismo estadounidense.
- Lydia Maria Francis
22 de feb. de 2024 · Lydia Maria Child was an American author of antislavery works that had great influence in her time. Born into an abolitionist family, Lydia Maria Francis was primarily influenced in her education by her brother, a Unitarian clergyman and later a professor at the Harvard Divinity School.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lydia Maria Child, (Feb. 11, 1802–Oct. 20, 1880) was a prolific writer who advocated women's rights, Indigenous peoples' rights, and North American 19th-century Black activism. Her best-known piece today is the homey "Over the River and Through the Wood," but her influential anti-enslavement writing helped sway many Americans ...
Lydia Maria Child ranks among the most influential of 19th-century American women writers. She was renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice and a champion of excluded groups in American society—especially Native Americans, enslaved peoples, and women.
Her legacy includes works dedicated to the fight to end slavery, to secure the rights of free blacks after the Civil War, in protest against the mistreatment of Native Americans, and in support of the movement for equality for women. Lydia Maria Child died in Wayland, Massachusetts on October 20, 1880.
Novelist, scholar, and activist for women’s rights, Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) became an abolitionist after she began reading Garrison’s news journal, The Liberator. In 1833, Child wrote “An Appeal to that Class of Americans Called Africans,” an anti-slavery tract in which she declared her willingness to battle for emancipation.
