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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827695003321

Autore

Kenschaft Lori J.

Titolo

Lydia Maria Child : the quest for racial justice / / Lori Kenschaft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

0-19-803042-8

1-280-56423-7

1-4237-7472-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (126 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Oxford portraits

Disciplina

303.48/4/092

B

Soggetti

Women social reformers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-119) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

A biography of the popular writer who, in the mid-nineteenth century, gave up her literary success to fight for the abolition of slavery, for women's rights, and for the fair treatment of American Indians.