Lydia Maria Child

The phrase “art imitates life” can be used to describe many works of literature. Authors and the stories they write are often influenced by the changing world around them along with the evolution of new perspectives and ways of thinking regarding a subject. While this may sound simply like a common literary trope, it is of great importance and significance in many genres of literature. None has this been more apparent than in both the anti-slavery and women’s empowerment movement of the early to mid-1800s. Two major influence authors in their respective subjects, Frederick Douglass and Fanny Fern, were heavily influenced by the changing societal trends of the time of which they expressed through their writing. Douglass’s speech in particular “What to a Slave is the 4th of July?” was heavily influenced by Douglass’s own personal experience as a slave as well as the rising prominence of the abolitionist movement in the United States. By referencing the contradictory nature of the Constitution relegating personal freedoms exclusively to white, property owning males, Douglass bluntly references the systematic inequalities faced by people of color in the United States. Never would the works of an African American author, especially one challenging the established institution of slavery, gain so much attention if not for the anti-slavery movement and shifting perspectives surrounding it.

Lydia Maria Child was an author, activist, and abolitionist. Her books and writings were about abolition, racial justice, and common opinions. Child wrote one of the earliest American historical novels, the first complete and thorough history of American slavery, and the first comparative history of women. Also, she edited the first American children's magazine, edited books for the freed slaves, and published the first book that was designed for the elderly. Lydia had an extraordinary ability for knowing exactly what the public wanted to read and when they wanted it.

The anti-slavery topic was the inspiration behind Lydia’s first anti-slavery piece, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. This piece was received poorly and many people were horrified that the beloved author of their historical novels, children’s literature, and household advice could write such a horrific piece. Many of Lydia’s customers at this time were wealthy white Americans and this customer group considered abolitionist to be extremist and uneducated when it came to the politics and philosophies. With this in mind, Lydia’s sales drastically dropped and subscriptions to her pieces The Juvenile Miscellany, stalled so aggressively that it caused her journal to fail entirely. When she noticed how she writings were being received she was appalled and was very unapologetic to her critics. In fact, she believed so strongly in her voice and her opinion she followed this writing with additional antislavery writings.

In reading parenting advice from the eighteenth and modern centuries, you can see many similarities and differences. In comparing the two centuries, parenting and cultural rearing of American children, you can see the ways parenting has changed. These changes can be seen in the evolution of parental guidance, the punishment of children, and how children act and are expected to act. Dividing the two centuries of styles for rearing American children.

On February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, a woman by the name of Susan Brownell Anthony was born to parents Daniel and Lucy (Read) Anthony. She was the second born of a strongly rooted Quaker family of eight (Hist.Bio.-1). Because they lived in a Quaker neighborhood, Susan was not heavily exposed to slavery. The family made anti-slavery talks an almost daily conversation over the dinner table. She also saw men and women on the same level (Stoddard 36). “A hard working father, who was not only a cotton manufacturer, but a Quaker Abolitionist also, prevented his children from what he called childish things such as toys, games and music. He felt that they would distract his children from reaching their peak of

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl are both nineteenth-century narratives about Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs’s experiences born into slavery and as escaped slaves. The concept of gender makes each narrative have distinct perspectives’ of their version of what they endure during slavery and how it shapes their freedom. Even though both narratives have many similarities of educating the complexity of being a vulnerable slave, Harriet Jacobs’ narrative provides more reason that slavery is far worse for women than it is for men.

White abolitionists like Maria W. Stewart, Samuel Wright, and William Lloyd Garrison greatly helped bring attention to the harsh realities of slavery. In September of 1863, Maria W. Stewart gave an untitled speech at Boston’s Franklin Hall. This speech directed at the women

This “Ice Giant” sure stands for its name as the 7th farthest planet from the Sun and its cold atmosphere brought about by the gases found here, hydrogen, helium and a little bit of methane. Uranus falls under the gas giant category along with neighbors Neptune and Saturn. This planet is composed of rock materials and various ices and is very similar to the cores of Saturn and Jupiter. Since the thick, blue-colored atmosphere covers the planet itself, scientists suggest that under the atmosphere is a hot, slushy ocean of water, ammonia, and methane thousands of mile deep right to a small, rocky core. Its blue color comes from the absorption of red light from the Sun by methane in the upper atmosphere but reflects blue light from the Sun back into space.

A family is one of the greatest things to have. Family brings laughter, happiness, and love. In Homer’s, The Odyssey, there are three main steps Odysseus takes in order to be reunited with his family. Odysseus uses wisdom as one step to bring himself home.

Lydia Child, one of the most influential American women writers of the nineteenth century, Lydia Child was a bestselling author of novels, books of advice for homemakers, and literature for children; Lydia Child was recognized even more during her life for her political writings denouncing the institution of slavery in United States; Lydia Child was famed in her day as a tireless crusaders for truth, justice and a champion of excluded groups in America society, such as Indians, slaves and woman. Furthermore, Lydia Child was a pioneer in several literary genres; Child wrote the first comprehensive history of American slavery, and the comparative history of woman. In addition, she edited the first American children magazine, compiled an early primer for the freed slaves, and also published the first book designed for the elderly; Child was a very popular writer,

No one in today’s society can even come close to the heartache, torment, anguish, and complete misery suffered by women in slavery. Many women endured this agony their entire lives, there only joy being there children and families, who were torn away from them and sold, never to be seen or heard from again.

Over the past week there has been many discussions and debates that have taken place in the Republican party. Through this all, Trump will still likely be the Republican nominee. In the past week he has been part of many rallies and participated in the republican debate which has only helped boost him up in the polls. Trump still continues to push the limits with his comments and continues to hold strong in the polls throughout the past week.

Looking at the female slave as a mother, we find that she fetishizes her relationship with her child. Fueling her state of distortion further, we suggest that the mother believes her infant son’s existence is another mistakes. Boldly, the mother takes on the unprecedented role of God and makes a multitude of distasteful decisions about her infant son. Like deeming his fair skin unbearable, predicting that as an adult he will claim a “master-right” over black slaves, and finally ending his life. By all accounts, the mother is unable to make sensible decisions about anything.

With so much going on back in 1850’s, especially the biggest issue was slavery. We tend to only think that adults were only slaves but forgot that children who were African American were also slaves too that were being put to work just like their parents. Anthony S. Parent, Jr. and Susan Brown Wallace both teamed up to collaborate studying the issue of children and slavery which is the untold story of the children during the times on slavery and their knowledge of sex. After reading the studies of their work, it was very shocking and surprising that little attention was brought up among the children during the slavery time. It was devastating to hear such treatment happening to poor innocent

Like Douglass, Jacobs also exposed the harsh treatment towards slaves while proving that American “blacks could succeed at the same activities as whites” (Hunter-Willis 26) through her own narrated experiences. Her resolve to write demonstrated a “resistance to the patriarchal system of slavery” (Peterson 158) by sharing the exploits of slavery through her own point of view.