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The Wall Street Journal: “Lydia Maria Child Taught Americans To Do With Less”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How a popular children’s writer\u2019s 1829 self-help book \u2018The Frugal Housewife\u2019 was based on the same democratic principles that made her a champion of the abolitionist cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Washington Post: “Activists have always been frustrated at allies\u2019 insistence on gradual change”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Abraham Lincoln was elected, Lydia Maria Child had been fighting to end slavery for thirty years. Lincoln’s careful negotiations with Southern states, guaranteeing that slavery could continue if they stayed in the Union, enraged her. Activists’ job, she argued, was to hold politicians at the “point of a moral bayonet” to ensure that moral progress would not be bargained away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Washington Post: “Lessons from the history of the White female abolitionists for today”<\/strong><\/a> (with Linda Hirshman)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White abolitionists Lydia Maria Child and Maria Weston Chapman were allies in the fight against slavery but fell out with each other over tactics and philosophy. In the years following their split, they both retreated from the abolitionist movement, only reengaging as the slide into war accelerated. Black abolitionists such as Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Harriet Tubman, and Sarah Mapps Douglass fought on without the benefit of time away, illustrating a fundamental inequity in activist movements that continues today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Psyche: “How the Feminist Philosopher Helene St\u00f6cker Canonized Nietzsche”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a moment when far-right commentators are again turning to Nietzsche for support, I chronicle the German feminist Helene St\u00f6cker’s early infatuation with Nietzsche’s philosophy, her determination to use his thought in the struggle for women’s rights, and the eugenic vision that tainted her activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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American Scholar: “Sins of the Fathers and the Mothers”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a trip to my home state of Minnesota, I reflect on the US-Dakota War of 1862 and my inherited responsibility for the displacement and death of indigenous people in the wake of that conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aeon: “Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Lydia Maria Child and other women became leaders in the abolitionist movement, conservative men tried to stop them. The struggle that ensued had poisonous consequences that prevented true collaboration between white women and Black women–consequences that continue to be felt today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The American Scholar: “Freedom Tales”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long before the contentious school board fights of today, Lydia Maria Child tried to help America\u2019s children understand their country\u2019s racial transgressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Paris Review: “For Our Cause is Just<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child despaired about her country’s moral progress when Andrew Jackson was elected president. Two decades later, she wrote to a nephew enlisted in the Civil War to assure him that the Union’s cause was just. Between those moments, she threw herself into the antislavery struggle in every way she knew how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boston Globe: \u201cThe North\u2019s Racial Blindness”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a day that white supremacists threatened to convene in Boston in 2017, I reflected on Lydia Maria Child’s condemnation of the Northern racism that made Southern slavery possible and on my own struggles as a white Northerner to come to terms with prejudice in my own backyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dogwood: “Lydia Maria Child’s Valiant Struggle for Racial Justice”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the anniversary of John Brown’s abolitionist raid in 1859, I reflect on Child’s reaction and her belief that those of us who believe in nonviolence have a duty to fight for justice. Otherwise, “the end cometh by violence, because come it must.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boston Globe: Review of Linda Hirshman’s The Color of Abolition<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lydia Maria Child and Maria Weston Chapman were the 19th-century version of frenemies: fierce allies in the crusade to end slavery but sometimes personally at odds. Their falling-out in the 1840s was heartbreaking. Here I review Linda Hirschman’s wonderful book that highlights Chapman’s long-neglected status in the abolitionist movement. A pdf of the review<\/a> is here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AskHistorians Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session about Lydia Maria Child<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blog of the American Philosophical Association: \u201cThe Philosophical Activism of Lydia Maria Child\u201d<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the nineteenth century, women philosophers were rare, but women activists were not. Lydia Maria Child, I argue, was both. What kind of philosophizing did Child do to sustain a lifetime of radical antislavery activism?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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American History TV (C-Span): Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Lydia Maria Child learned about slavery in Medford, MA, and what Frederick Douglass taught her about forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview with Megan Marshall at Massachusetts Historical Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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