Cousin Ann's Stories for Children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780979711091)

Ann Preston (1813-1872) is best known as a medical pioneer and nineteenth century Quaker activist. The immediate cause of the publication of Cousin Ann's Stories for Children (1849) was most likely the then recent 27 hour escape at the end of March, 1849, of Henry "Box" Brown, a Richmond slave who left his family and escaped north in a small wooden crate. Though Cousin Ann's Stories for Children is one hundred and sixty-two years old, it still speaks to contemporary concerns and moral perspectives. In its address "To My Little Readers" she explains, "I thought I would write a little book, and that would be a good way to speak with you, though I am far away." What Cousin Ann speaks of is practicing temperance, healthy diet and avoidance of tobacco, to treasure freedom and abhor slavery, the bounty and beauty of God's creation, the need to treat others generously and honestly.

Author: Ann Preston
ISBN-10: 0979711096
ISBN-13: 9780979711091
Publisher: Inner Light Books
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2010
Pages: 38
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.76w x 0.13d