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Richard Hildreth
1807–1865
A sharp-eyed historian and reform-minded journalist, this nineteenth-century American writer is best known for his sweeping six-volume history of the United States. He also brought his antislavery convictions into both his fiction and his public life.
3 Audiobooks
Hildreth's "Japan as It Was and Is": A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Richard Hildreth
Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana
by Richard Hildreth, Edward Carbery
Hildreth's "Japan as It Was and Is": A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Richard Hildreth
About the author
Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1807, Richard Hildreth was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard before studying law. Although he was admitted to the bar, he became better known as a journalist, political writer, and historian.
His best-known work is the six-volume History of the United States of America, published between 1840 and 1853, a major account of the nation’s early years. He also wrote fiction, including The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore, which is often noted as an early American antislavery novel.
Hildreth’s writing had a clear moral and political edge: he opposed slavery, wrote extensively on public affairs, and was active in antislavery circles in Boston. Late in life he served as United States consul at Trieste, and he died in Florence, Italy, in 1865.