An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

by Child, Lydia Maria Francis; Karcher, Carolyn L.

• ISBN13: 9781558490079
• ISBN10: 1558490078
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

Published in Boston in 1833, Lydia Maria Child's Appeal provided the abolitionist movement with its first full-scale analysis of race and slavery. Indeed, so comprehensive was its scope, surveying the institution from historical, political, economic, legal, racial, and moral perspectives, that no other antislavery writer ever attempted to duplicate Child's achievement. The Appeal not only denounced slavery in the South but condemned racial prejudice in the free North and refuted racist ideology as a whole.
Child's treatise anticipated twentieth-century inquiries into the African origins of European and American culture as well as current arguments against school and job discrimination based on race.
This new edition - the first oriented toward the classroom - is enhanced by Carolyn L. Karcher's illuminating introduction. Included is a chronology of Child's life and a list of books for further reading.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. IX
Chronology of Lydia Maria Child	p. XIII
Introduction	p. XIX
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. LVII
An Appeal: In Favor Of That Class of Americans Called Africans	p. 1
Preface	p. 5
An Appeal, & c	p. 7
Comparative, View of Slavery, In Different Ages and Nations	p. 36
Free Labor and Slave Labor -- possibility of Safe Emancipation	p. 72
Influence of Slavery on the politics Of the United States	p. 99
Colonization Society, And Anti-Slavery Society	p. 116
Intellect of Negroes	p. 140
Moral Character of Negroes	p. 168
prejudices Against people of Color And Our Duties in Relation To This Subject	p. 186
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