Catharine Sedgwick

Overview

Catharine Sedgwick born Stockbridge, MA December 28, 1789 (d. 1867). Publication of novel Hope Leslie showed a revised view of the Pequot War, sympathetic to the Indian view, 1827.

Quotations

"Virtue and intellect are not withheld from any branch of the human family; and the enlightened and accurate observer of human nature will admit that the difference of character among the various races of the earth, arises mainly from difference of condition." (Preface Hope Leslie; 1856 W. Coombe engrav., wikicommons pd)