02324cam a22003373u 4500 28242 UtSlPG 20260610133638.0 m cr n 260607r2009||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 11004046 UtSlPG en iso639-1 E300 Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2009 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Appeal_in_Favor_of_that_Class_of_Americans_Called_Africans Release date is 2009-03-03 Produced by Suzanne Shell, C. St. Charleskindt and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans" by Lydia Maria Child is a socio-political treatise written in the early 19th century. This work passionately advocates for the rights of African Americans while denouncing the institution of slavery and the injustices it engenders. Child aims to awaken readers to the moral imperative of abolishing slavery and to consider the plight of African Americans as deserving of empathy and justice. At the start of the text, Child appeals directly to her readers, urging them to engage with her arguments regardless of their personal biases against the subject. She references historical instances of the slave trade and provides a brief overview of its catastrophic effects on Africa and its peoples, emphasizing the brutal nature of slavery and the exploitative practices that have arisen from it. The opening portion serves as a call to conscience, aiming to confront readers with the moral decay represented by the institution of slavery and rally them towards advocating for human rights and dignity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Antislavery movements -- United States Slavery -- United States https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28242 69151 69151