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Author Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.

Title A Romance of the Republic.

Publication Info. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (465 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Chapter XXXVIIIChapter XXXIX.
Summary 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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Subject Interracial marriage -- United States -- Fiction.
Interracial marriage.
United States.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Racism -- United States -- Fiction.
Racism.
Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
Slavery.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Fiction.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1865-1918
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Racism.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Added Author Nelson, Dana D.
Other Form: Print version: Child, Lydia Maria. A Romance of the Republic. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813109282
ISBN 9780813149103 (electronic book)
081314910X (electronic book)