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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Child , David Lee 1794 -1874 (search)
Child, David Lee 1794-1874
Abolitionist; born in West Boylston, Mass., July 8, 1794; graduated at Harvard College in 1817: was later admitted to the bar. In 1830 he was editor of the Massachusetts journal, and while holding a seat in the legislature opposed the annexation of Texas; afterwards he issued a tract on the subject entitled Naboth's Vineyard.
In 1836 he published ten articles on the subject of slavery, and in the following year, while in Paris, addressed a memoir to the Societepour l'abolition d'esclavage.
He also forwarded a pamphlet on the same subject to the Eclectic review in London.
In 1843-44 he edited (with his wife) the Anti-slavery standard in New York.
He died in Wayland, Mass., Sept. 18, 1874.