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Lewis H. Beck Center: Child, Lydia Maria: Charity Bowery

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Download and read Lydia Maria Child's "Charity Bowery," originally written in 1839, which tells the story of a freed slave's choices as she is allowed to take only one of her children out of slavery.

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Concepts
slave narratives
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Additional Tags
abolition, abolitionist movement, anti-slavery literature, anti-slavery movement, freed slave, child, lydia maria, lydia child, abolitionist
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