Margaret L. Bailey
American newspaper publisher and poet (1812–1888)
Margaret L. Bailey (née, Shands; December 12, 1812 – 1888) was an American anti-slavery writer, poet, lyricist, as well as newspaper editor and publisher. She served as editor of The Youth's Monthly Visitor, a children's magazine, and as the publisher of The National Era, an anti-slavery journal.
Biography
Margaret Lucy Shands was born in Sussex County, Virginia, on December 12, 1812. She was a daughter of Thomas Shands. When she was about six years old, her family removed to Ohio, and settled in the vicinity of Cincinnati.
In 1833, she married Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, a physician in Cincinnati. Of the Bailey's 12 children, only half survived infancy.
In 1837, Dr. Bailey became the editor and proprietor of The Philanthropist, a well-known anti-slavery journal, which was merged into The Cincinnati Morning Herald, in the year 1843.
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