Child, Lydia Maria:

"AS NO INDIVIDUAL CAN MONOPOLIZE SUNSHINE OR WATER, SO NO NATION OR SECT CAN APPROPRIATE TO ITSELF GOD'S LOVE OR GOD'S TRUTH"

[np: nd]. Autograph sentiment, signed, "L. Maria Child," undated, on a card 2-3/8" x 3-1/2." Fine.

"Mrs. Child, descended from one of the earliest settlers of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a lady to be reckoned with. Novelist, schoolmistress, and editor of a magazine for children, she became the kind of dedicated abolitionist that only a Yankee gentlewoman could be....Through her Channing, Sumner, Higginson, and other effective opponents of slavery were brought over to the cause." [LCP Negro History Exhibition 79]. Item #41586

Price: $750.00