An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans: Revised and Updated Edition

by Lydia Maria Francis Child and Lydia Maria Francis Child

Published in Boston in 1833, Lydia Maria Child's An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans provided the abolitionist movement with its first full-scale analysis of race and enslavement. Controversial in its own time, the Appeal surveyed the institution of slavery from historical, political, economic, legal, racial, and moral perspectives and advocated for the immediate emancipation of the enslaved without compensation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625347731
• ISBN13: 9781625347732
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"