Lyddie - Books to Parks
A series first published by the National Park Service, in reading order.
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In chapter 2 of Lyddie, a Quaker neighbor buys the family calf and helps Lyddie and Charlie on their way. Historians say Quakers respected outsiders but kept to themselves.
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In Lyddie, a girl shelters a man escaping slavery who taught himself to read. What the record says about literacy under slavery, freedom inside bondage, and the Quakers who helped.
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Lyddie quickly becomes one of the mill’s top workers. She is given more looms to tend and is making more money than ever.
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Uncle Judah and Aunt Clarissa have sent Lyddie’s mother to an asylum because they could no longer care for her. They plan to sell the family farm to pay for her care.
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In Lyddie's farewell chapter, her friend Brigid lives in the Acre. An 1831 newspaper, an 1898 memoir and a historian show what Lowell's Irish settlement was really like.
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