Lydia Maria Child's Appeal


In 1833 Child was probably the best-known woman writer in America. She was the author of popular novels like Hobomok (1823) and a best-selling advice manual called The Frugal Housewife (1829), and founder of the nation's first children's magazine, The Juvenile Miscellany. But as she predicted in the Preface to this protest against slavery and racisim, this book made her very unpopular with many former admirers and readers. It is one of the first major American abolitionist texts, and in its arguments in favor of admitting African Americans into full membership in society, one of the most radical.


An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
By Mrs. Child
Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833.


Frontispiece
  • PREFACE.
  • CHAPTER I.    BRIEF HISTORY OF NEGRO SLAVERY.--ITS INEVITABLE EFFECT UPON ALL CONCERNED IN IT.
  • CHAPTER II.    COMPARATIVE VIEW OF SLAVERY, IN DIFFERENT AGES AND NATIONS.
  • CHAPTER III.    FREE LABOR AND SLAVE LABOR.--POSSIBILITY OF SAFE EMANCIPATION.
  • CHAPTER IV.    INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY UPON THE POLITICS OF THE UNITED STATES.
  • CHAPTER V.     COLONIZATION SOCIETY, & ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.
  • CHAPTER VI.     INTELLECT OF NEGROES.
  • CHAPTER VII.     MORAL CHARACTER OF NEGROES
  • CHAPTER VIII.     PREJUDICES AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR, AND OUR DUTIES IN RELATION TO THIS SUBJECT.
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