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A Romance of the Republic

by Lydia Maria Child

★3.1/5
FictionHistorical Fiction
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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 daughte...

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