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| Genre/Form: | Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jackson, Constance L. (Constance Lillie), 1954- Over the river-- Rolling Hills Estates, CA : Permanent Productions, c2008 (OCoLC)776258908 |
| Named Person: | Child, Mrs. |
| Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Constance L Jackson |
| ISBN: | 9780981820408 0981820409 |
| OCLC Number: | 231031891 |
| Notes: | Copy 2 includes DVD (4 3/4 in.) in separate case. |
| Description: | 97 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. + 1 videodisc (DVD : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Contents: | 1: Heritage -- 2: Maria's fictional stories: Hobomok, Juvenile miscellany, Evenings in New England, The rebels, and The juvenile miscellany children's magazine -- True love: David and Maria -- 3: Slavery and democracy: the great cotton conflict -- A relationship made in heaven? -- Maria's domestic advice book and David's debts: The frugal housewife, The mother's book, and The little Girl's own book -- The beginning of the end to slavery: black civil rights and women's rights -- Brewing insurrection in Virginia -- Abolitionism, unionism, state rights, and Jacksonian politics -- Maria's anguish over David/Garrison hails Maria "The first woman in the republic" -- Garrisonians -- Maria's literary bombshell and the personal attacks against her -- Maria blames herself for David's impractical business schemes/1835 "The year of the mob" -- Maria supports David's beet farming project -- Maria's transcendental loves -- Maria creates a new style of writing called Essays or Sketches -- 4: More congressional infighting/moral repulsion of slavery & Maria's deep depression -- Maria publishes a pioneering first: The progress of religious ideas -- Moral repulsion over the spread of slavery into the West -- "Free soil! Free speech!, Free men! Fremont!" -- 5: Secession looming/John Brown's raid/Maria's resurgence -- Aging Maria continues her push to abolish slavery/secession & Civil War looming -- Maria writes The freedmen's book -- The fight to abolish slavery has ended -- 6: A new day for America?/Reconstruction policy--First civil rights bill passed in 1866 -- Rest in peace, Maria. |
| Series Title: | Discover America's turmoil of the 1800s. |
| Responsibility: | Constance L. Jackson ; introduction by Carolyn L. Karcher. |
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Abstract:
"A biography of a popular writer who, in the mid-19th century, supported the immediate abolition of slavery, which caused adverse public response that catapulted her into advocating for African-American rights, for women's rights, and for better treatment of Native Americans"--Provided by publisher.
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