Lydia Maria Child

 Lydia Marie Child was born on febuary 11, 1802 and died october 20 1880 was a novelist editor journalist and scholar who produced a body of work remarkable for her brilliance and originality all inspired by her strong sense of justice and love of freedom. The youngest of seven children daughter of a housewife and a banker, after her mothers death she moved in with her married sister and she began teaching in 1819 in gardiner, maine. Lydia Child and her husband began to identify themselves with the anti-slavery cause in 1831 through the personal influence and writings of William Lloyd Garrison Child was a women's rights activist, but did not believe significant progress for women could be made until after the abolition of Slavery. In 1833 her book An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans was published. It argued in favor of the immediate emancipation of the slaves without compensation to slaveholders, and she is sometimes said to have been the first white person to have written a book in support of this policy. Was a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society and would also go on to fight for Indian rights.