A Romance of the Republic.
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TextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (465 pages)Content type: - text
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- PS1293 .C45 1997eb
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Chapter XXXVIIIChapter XXXIX.
A Romance of the Republic, published in 1867, was Lydia Maria Child's fourth novel and the capstone of her remarkable literary career. Written shortly after the Civil War, it offered a progressive alternative to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Writer, magazine publisher and outspoken abolititionist, Child defied the norms of gender and class decorum in this novel by promoting interracial marriage as a way blacks and whites could come to view each other with sympathy and understanding. In constructing the tale of fair-skinned Rosa and Flora Royal -- daughters of a slaveowner whose mother was also the daug.
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