Project Gutenberg 2009-03-03 Public domain in the USA. 310 Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880 Child, Lydia Maria Francis Francis, Lydia Maria Child, L. Maria (Lydia Maria) Child, D. L., Mrs. Child, Mrs. D. L. Child, Mrs. David Lee Child, David Lee, Mrs. 11004046 An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Reading ease score: 54.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. 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.) en Antislavery movements -- United States Slavery -- United States E300 Text Slavery Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Politics 594047 594062 2024-10-12T08:16:16.765501 2023-09-12T11:08:49.448004 text/html text/html 597510 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 488240 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 638924 2024-10-12T08:16:29.396293 application/epub+zip 643303 2024-10-12T08:16:21.581333 application/epub+zip 308629 2024-10-12T08:16:19.784348 application/epub+zip 990117 2024-10-12T08:16:34.962259 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 945291 2024-10-12T08:16:28.080300 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 592568 2022-09-13T07:47:47.746903 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 533885 533777 2024-10-12T08:16:15.369372 2023-09-12T11:08:48.279988 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 533760 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 203324 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 533753 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 203281 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22329 2024-10-12T08:16:35.128240 application/rdf+xml 25976 2024-10-12T08:16:20.383323 image/jpeg 5025 2024-10-12T08:16:20.081328 image/jpeg 586670 2024-10-12T08:16:16.828350 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia