Margaret L. Bailey

Margaret L. Bailey (née, Shands; December 12, 1812 – 1888) was an American anti-slavery writer,[1] 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.

[4] 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.

[2] In March 1844, Mrs. Bailey became the editor of The Youth's Monthly Visitor, a quarto paper for children, which rapidly became popular and attained a circulation of 3,000 copies.

[2] There, the family home became a gathering place for large circle of literary, political, and social friends,[2][5] as well as white antislavery activists.

[7] According to Griswold & Stoddard (1878), The Youth's Monthly Visitor "was perhaps the first of its class every published in the U.S., and its content justify the critical opinion of Mr. William D. Gallagher, that Mrs. Bailey is one of the ablest women of the age."