This is the grave of Lydia Maria Child. Lydia Maria Francis was born in 1802 in Medford, Massachusetts. Going by her middle name her whole life and pronouncing it "Mariah,".
This is the grave of Gerrit Smith. Born in 1797 in Utica, New York, he grew up wealthy. His father had married into the New York Livingston elite and made.
This is the grave of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 in Cambridge to an old Puritan family, Higginson started at Harvard at age 13 and graduated in 1841. He.
This is the grave of Theodore Sedgwick. Born in 1746 to one of Massachusetts' oldest families, Sedgwick went to Yale but didn't graduate. Instead, he went to Great Barrington where.
This is the grave of Charles Sumner. Born in Boston in 1811, Sumner's family were strong abolitionists and of course their son picked this up with passion. He graduated from.
This is the grave of Lysander Spooner. Born in 1808 in Athol, Masschusetts, Spooner never went to college but nonetheless studied with some of his state's top lawyers and became.
Richard Kreitner brings up the odd 1857 abolitionist convention in Worcester threatening secession as an avenue to asking tough questions of modern voters about the rhetoric of extremism running through.
Lest one think that the Gutenberg Project only provides bizarre books of America's past that make ridiculous arguments, let me at least point out that you can access such texts.
