Addressing Racial Conflict in Antebellum America: Women and Native Americans in Lydia Maria Child’s and Margaret Fuller’s Literary Works

Serena Mocci

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-2752/9912

Addressing Racial Conflict in Antebellum America: Women and Native Americans in Lydia Maria Child’s and Margaret Fuller’s Literary Works

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Serena Mocci University of Bologna http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3001-3948

Serena Mocci is currently a PhD student in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics at the Department of Histories and Cultures, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, where she is working on a research project entitled American Exceptionalism, Expansionism and Reforms in Margaret Fuller’s and Lydia Maria Child’s Political Thought. Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, USA) and at the Centre for Gender History of Glasgow University (Scotland, UK). In 2019 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History of Columbia University (New York City, USA). Her main research interests include American transcendentalism, Atlantic abolitionism and the relationship between women reformers and the American political culture in the nineteenth century.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-2752/9912

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Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, Women Reformers, Nineteenth Century, Native Americans, Expansionism

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Through an analysis of two lesser-known works, Summer on the Lakes (1844) and The First Settlers of New-England: or, Conquest of the Pequods, Narragansets and Pokanokets (1829),the essay aims to investigate the ways in which two American thinkers, Margaret Fuller and Lydia Maria Child, used literature as a means of resistance against American expansionist policies and as an instrument for portraying, addressing and resolving racial conflict at U.S. borders during two crucial moments in antebellum American history.

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2020-03-02

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Mocci, S. (2020). Addressing Racial Conflict in Antebellum America: Women and Native Americans in Lydia Maria Child’s and Margaret Fuller’s Literary Works. USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, 3(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-2752/9912

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