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HILDRETH, RICHARD (1807—1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HILDRETH, See also:RICHARD (1807—1865) , See also:American journalist and author, was See also:born at See also:Deerfield, See also:Massachusetts, on the 28th of See also:June 1807, the son of See also:Hosea Hildreth (1782-1835), a teacher of See also:mathematics and later a Congregational See also:minister. Richard graduated at Harvard in 1826, and, after studying See also:law at See also:Newburyport, was admitted to the See also:bar at See also:Boston in 183o. He had already taken to journalism, and in 1832 he became See also:joint founder and editor of a daily newspaper, the Boston See also:Atlas. Having in 1834 gone to the See also:South for the benefit of his See also:health, he was led by what he witnessed of the evils of See also:slavery (chiefly in See also:Florida) to write the See also:anti-slavery novel The Slave: or Memoir of Archy See also:Moore (1836; enlarged edition, 1852, The See also:White Slave). In 1837 he wrote for the Atlas a See also:series of articles vigorously opposing the See also:annexation of See also:Texas. In the same See also:year he published See also:Banks, Banking, and See also:Paper Currencies, a See also:work which helped to promote the growth of the See also:free banking See also:system in See also:America. In 1838 he resumed his editorial duties on the Atlas, but in 1840 removed, on See also:account of his health, to See also:British See also:Guiana, where he lived for three years and was editor of two weekly See also:news-papers in See also:succession at See also:Georgetown. He published in this year (1840) a See also:volume in opposition to slavery, Despotism in America (2nd ed., 18J4). In 1849 he published the first three volumes of his See also:History of the See also:United States, two more volumes of which were published in 181 and the See also:sixth and last in 1852. The first three volumes of this history, his most important work, See also:deal with the See also:period 1492-1789, and the second three with the period 1789-1821. The history is notable for its painstaking accuracy and candour, but the later volumes have a strong Federalist See also:bias. Hildreth's See also:Japan as It Was and Is (1855) was at the See also:time a valuable See also:digest of the See also:information contained in other See also:works on that See also:country (new ed., 1906).

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campaign See also:biography of See also:William See also:Henry See also:Harrison (1839); Theory of Morals (1844) ; and Theory of Politics (1853), as well as Lives of Atrocious See also:Judges (1856), compiled from See also:Lord See also:Campbell's two works. In 1861 he was appointed United States See also:consul at See also:Trieste, but See also:ill-health compelled him to resign and remove to See also:Florence, where he died on the rth of See also:July 1865.

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