Thomas Day

Also known as Author of ″Sandford and Merton″

Thomas Day foi um escritor, advogado e abolicionista inglês. Ele era bem conhecido pelo livro The History of Sandford and Merton (1783–1789), que enfatizava os ideais educacionais rousseaunianos, por seus escritos contra a escravidão, por fazer campanha tanto a favor quanto contra a independência americana, e por seu projeto de aplicar seus ideais educacionais a jovens garotas com o objetivo de criar uma esposa para si mesmo.

Occupation: writer, children's writer, essayist, abolitionist
Citizenship: Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom
Born: June 22, 1748
Died: September 28, 1789

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Also known as Author of ″Sandford and Merton″

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“I never thought I had a right to sacrifice another being to my own good or pleasure; but whatever else ensued you would be placed in circumstances infinitely more favourable to happiness than before.”
— In a letter to Sabrina Sidney, whom Day attempted to groom into the "perfect wife", explaining his behaviour towards her; as quoted in How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman (2013), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 115
“If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves.”
— Written in response to the publication of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, attacking the hypocrisy of American Patriots owning slaves while demanding independence; as quoted in Fragment of an original letter on the slavery of the negroes : written in the year 1776 (1836), Garrison and Knapp, p. 10

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