Into the Mouths of Babes: An Anthology of Children's Abolitionist Literature »

DEBORAH C. DE ROSA is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature: 1830-1865 (2003) in addition to book chapters and journal articles.

19th century American women were not supposed to have political views, much less air them in public. Women abolitionists found a unique way to participate in the public debate over slavery by writing about the subject in children's literature. De Rosa (English, Northern Illinois U.) has recovered such works from the 1820s to 1850s and has assembled them in this scholarly volume. Biographical information and analysis (when available) is included for each author, followed by the author's stories, poetry, hymns, or excerpts from longer pieces of fiction. Black & white reproductions display original illustrations, and a list of selected libraries that own original editions of works in the anthology are included. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR