Project Gutenberg 2009-03-03 Public domain in the USA. 488 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 Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Appeal_in_Favor_of_that_Class_of_Americans_Called_Africans 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.) Reading ease score: 54.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Antislavery movements -- United States Slavery -- United States E300 Text Slavery Category: History - American Category: Sociology Category: Politics 594161 2025-08-11T13:39:32.687798 text/html 597510 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/html 639005 2025-08-11T13:39:43.858747 application/epub+zip 643327 2025-08-11T13:39:36.887836 application/epub+zip 308645 2025-08-11T13:39:35.322805 application/epub+zip 990143 2025-08-11T13:39:48.828761 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 945291 2025-08-11T13:39:42.691756 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 592568 2022-09-13T07:47:47.746903 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 533885 2025-08-11T13:39:31.723895 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 533760 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 533753 2021-01-04T19:46:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21325 2025-08-11T13:39:48.977740 application/rdf+xml 25976 2025-08-11T13:39:35.844802 image/jpeg 5025 2025-08-11T13:39:35.583804 image/jpeg 203324 2021-01-04T19:46:32 application/octet-stream application/zip 488240 2021-01-04T19:46:32 application/octet-stream application/zip 203281 2021-01-04T19:46:32 application/octet-stream application/zip 586708 2025-08-11T13:39:32.743868 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia