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Critical Essay by Deborah Logan
SOURCE: Logan, Deborah. “Harriet Martineau and the Martyr Age of the United States.” Symbiosis 5, no. 1 (April 2001): 33-49.
In the following essay, Logan considers Martineau's tour of the United States and the inspiration it provided for a body of work about repression and slavery.
The accident of my arriving in America in the dawning hour of the great conflict accounts for the strange story I have had to tell about myself.1
(AB 2:61)
She was born to be a destroyer of slavery, in whatever form, in whatever place, all over the world, wherever she saw or thought she saw it.2
As one of the most prolific writers of the nineteenth-century, Harriet Martineau observed with characteristic candor that there was a great deal to be said, and that she was more or less the person to say it. Included among her many literary and political interests is her lifelong...
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