Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Her journals, both fiction and domestic manuals, reached wide audiences from the 1820s through the 1850s. At times she shocked her audience as she tried to take on issues of both male dominance and white supremacy in some of her stories.

11 February 1802

Born on the same birth day (11 February): Aasa Helgesen • Aubrey O'Day • Catherine Hickland • Elizabeth of York • Jacque Vaughn • John Warren Davis (college president) • Marco Marcato • Melville Fuller • Mike Shinoda • Otis Clay • Richard Hamming • Vlad Moldoveanu

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