An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"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.)

Credits:

Produced by Suzanne Shell, C. St. Charleskindt and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.

Notes:

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Appeal_in_Favor_of_that_Class_of_Americans_Called_Africans

Reading ease score: 54.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.

Release date is 2009-03-03