1 Child, Lydia Maria. Lydia Maria Child: Selected Letters, 1817-1880
Child, Lydia Maria. Lydia Maria Child: Selected Letters, 1817-1880. Edited by Milton Meltzer and Patricia G. Holland. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982.
Sumner, Republicans, and slavery, 353-54 Wendell Phillips, tract, 355-56 Harriet Jacobs, 357-59 Whittier, 358 Fugitive, slave, 360 Publishers for antislavery work, 360 Home remedies, 361 Pamphlet, emancipation, 362 Constitution and slavery, 363 Virginia without slaves, emancipation, new staples, 365-66 Lemuel Shaw, personal liberty laws, 367-68 Fears Republicans will compromise, 369 Wendell Phillips speech, armed men, hecklers, 370 Charles Francis Adams, 371 South Carolina, fears compromise by Republicans, Sumner, 371-72 Sumner, Seward, Charles Francis Adams, deficiency of courage, 372-73 Republicans and compromise, peace commissioners, 374 Sumner, compromise, John A. Andrew, 375-76 Dedicated to crusade against slavery, Republicans need to be braver, Sumner, 377 Jefferson Davis newspapers in New York, 378 Present conflict and agitation will shorten life of slavery, 379 Doubts there is all that much good in all the Union sentiment, worries about slaves being sent back to masters, 380 Everyone knows war is about slavery, 381 Soldier going off to war, 381-82 Edmund Sears sermon, 381-82 Fugitive slaves, 383-84 Slavery, laws of county vs. laws of God, 384 Needs a war intense enough to destroy slavery, 385 Question of what to do with southern states after war is won, 385 Deplores attitude of British press on the war, 385-86 Slaves contraband, 386 Sumner, fugitive slaves, 387 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Seward, slavery to be overthrown, Taney, 388-89 Slavery, timing of emancipation, military have no power to return fugitives, 390-91 Bull Run defeat, 391 Frémont, emancipation, Lyon, 393 Need of music for war, emancipation, 394 Soldiers and fugitive slaves, 394-95 Punished for our sins by having weak rulers, fugitive slaves, 395-96 Mary Lincoln, fashion, 396 Escape slaves, work among the freedpeople, 399 Port Royal, 299
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Lincoln and providence, 299-300 Music, song of the contrabands, 300 Money for the former slaves at Port Royal, 301-2 Frederick Law Olmsted, wage labor for former slaves, 402 George W. Julian, should not worship the Constitution, 403 Abraham and Mary Lincoln, James Lane, Frémont, 404-5 Gerrit Smith, 405-6 British, Lord Lyon, Greeley, Trent affair, Seward, 406-7 Lincoln and emancipation, 407 Theodore Tilton, artist and blacks, 408 Religious opinions in the Independent, 409 Emancipation in Washington, Republicans, 410 Education for freedpeople, southern poor whites, 411 Politicians, principle, corruption, compromise, Sumner, 411 William P. Cutler, labor, Henry Wilson, slavery and degradation of labor, racism and miscegenation, 413-15 Sumner, preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, McClellan, Seward, 416-17 Expects Confederates to declare a partial emancipation, 417 McClellan, Mitchel, Prentiss, slavery, 418-19 Preliminary, Emancipation Proclamation, 419 Rejoices at McClellan’s removal and Seward’s rumored resignation, 420 Elections of 1862 and Lincoln, 420 Slave life, punishment for sin, 421 Welfare of slaves, 421-22 Lincoln and Emancipation Proclamation, 423 Black soldiers, Robert Gould Shaw, 427 Northern weakness on slavery, 427-28 Music, 428-29 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 430-31 Fire, 432-33 Death of Robert Gould Shaw, 433-34, 436 Fanny Kemble, 435 New York Draft riot, 435-36 George W. Julian, land question, emancipation, 439 Government treatment of former slaves, 443-44 Ulysses S. Grant, 443-44 Changing public opinion on slavery, 444 Gerrit Smith, Freedmen’s Bank, 445 Marriage, divorce, 445 Lincoln and Frémont as presidential candidates, 445-46 War going well, Jefferson Davis, Confederates, disaffection of poor whites, 448 Confederates plotting with Copperheads, St. Albans raid, 448-49 Northwest conspiracy, 449 Maryland, slavery, Tennessee, Andrew Johnson, 449 Election of 1864, Lincoln, McClellan, Andrew Johnson, 449-50 Sumner, Garrison, 450
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Reconstruction, end of the war, 451 Robert E. Lee, 452 Nathan Bedford Forest, 452 Appomattox, Grant terms with Lee, 453 Christian Commission, 453 Lincoln assassination, 453-54
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