A portrait from Lydia Maria Child of the cultural realities of New York as an emerging urban centre with essays on the Amistad captives and women's suffrage. In this introduction and annotation of the text, Mills reconstructs the biographical and cultural context surrounding the book's publication.
Prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child began writing her "letters" from New York in August 1841 as a response to the troubling realities marki
