Question
This author was forced to stop editing her popular children’s magazine Juvenile Miscellany after she published the early abolitionist book An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this American author of the bestselling domestic manual The Frugal Housewife and the traditional Thanksgiving poem “Over the River and Through the Wood.”
ANSWER: Lydia Maria Child [or Lydia Maria Francis]
[10m] Child edited this slave narrative, which describes its author’s persecution by Dr. Flint. It was published under the name Linda Brent, a pseudonym for its author, Harriet Jacobs.
ANSWER: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [or Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself]
[10e] Child’s introduction of the “tragic mulatta” stereotype in her story “The Quadroons” influenced this author, who reveals it is Armand and not his wife who is part-Black at the end of her story “Désirée's Baby.”
ANSWER: Kate Chopin [or Katherine O’Flaherty]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Stanford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida B | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU A | Claremont A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Houston A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto A | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |