| Title: |
Letter from Lydia Maria Child to Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, 1856
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| Document type: |
Letter
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| Accessibility: |
Paid Only
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| Repository: |
Alexander Street Press
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| Collection: |
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Subscription only)
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| URL: |
http://www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/cwld/documentidx.pl?aspdocid=S109-D061
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
1856
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| Speaker: |
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
11-Feb-1802
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Medford, MA; Massachusetts; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Abolitionist; Farmer; Publisher; Teacher; Writer
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| Age at speaking: |
54
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| Document location: |
Wayland, MA
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| Document date: |
1856
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| People discussed: |
Charles Sumner; Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
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| Historical events discussed: |
Kansas-Nebraska Act enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854; Senator Charles Sumner beaten on Senate floor, May 22, 1856
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Charles Sumner; Kansas-Nebraska Act enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854; Senator Charles Sumner beaten on Senate floor, May 22, 1856; Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Abolitionism; Assault and battery; Election campaigns; Law; Legislators; Politics; Sociology
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| ASP release: |
2006-01
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| Document code: |
S109-D061-34
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