This periodical first published a story in which Dugal McAdoo hires a witch to prevent slaves from eating his scuppernongs. An influential article written for this publication averred that "amid the vast range of human powers and properties, the fact of sex is but one item". That article, "Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?", was written for this publication by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, whose "Letter to a Young Contributor" in this magazine inspired (*) Emily Dickinson to contact him. This magazine published the early stories of Charles Chesnutt, as well as Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of 
This periodical first published a story in which Dugal McAdoo hires a witch to prevent slaves from eating his scuppernongs. An influential article written for this publication averred that "amid the vast range of human powers and properties, the fact of sex is but one item". That article, "Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?", was written for this publication by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, whose "Letter to a Young Contributor" in this magazine inspired (*) Emily Dickinson to contact him. This magazine published the early stories of Charles Chesnutt, as well as Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Its longtime editors have included William Dean Howells and one of its co-founders, James Russell Lowell. For 10 points, name this literary magazine founded in 1857 in Boston and named for a nearby body of water.
This periodical first published a story in which Dugal McAdoo hires a witch to prevent slaves from eating his scuppernongs.