Lydia Maria Child was an activist and writer who used her works to advocate for the rights of the oppressed. Her novels, pamphlets, and children's works often focused on defending enslaved people, women, and Native Americans. Child was characterized by a strong sense of social justice, merging literary creation with activism. Her writing is considered an important contribution to the discourse on equality and humanity of her time.
An anthology of Lydia Maria Child's writing for children edited with an introduction by Hilary Emmett & Thomas Ruys Smith in collaboration with students from the Department of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.
The author, the child of mulatto parents, recounts her childhood in slavery, the abuse she suffered, her escape to the North, and the help she received from both blacks and whites, and documents the degradation and injustices of slavery. Reprint.