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Lydia Maria Child Witness Statement

“ I believe in John Brown’s cause but I feel that John Brown’s methods towards freeing the slaves is unnecessary.” I Lydia Maria Child, am an American abolitionist, women’s rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, and journalist. Like John Brown, I believe that slavery is very wrong and cruel and should be stopped. I started my campaign against slavery after hearing the speech of William Lloyd Garrison at a public meeting. I wrote a book about the issue of slavery in 1833 “An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans.” My book upseted many of my readers however. I was eventually forced to cease publication of the book and instead I started a weekly newspaper with my husband, David Lee Child about antislavery.In 1839 two other women and I were elected to the executive committee of the Anti-Slavery Society. …show more content…

Some fellow abolitionists provided John Brown with money and weapons but I did none of the sort. It must be admitted that John Brown was a "peculiar" abolitionist. I worked for the freedom of the slaves by speaking and writing. John Brown however, felt an urgency and a sense of personal responsibility which made him impatient with political campaigns. The abolition of slavery is the most crucial issue of our era and I focus my time and energy in fighting against the evils of slavery, but I do not agree with how John Brown tried to stop

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