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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans is an 1833 book by American writer Lydia Maria Child, which advocated the immediate emancipation of the slaves without compensation to their owners.[1][2][3]

It is the first book in support of this policy written by a white woman.[4][5][6] According to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "it was the first anti-slavery work ever printed in America in book form".[7] It was published by Allen & Ticknor in Boston, a predecessor to Ticknor and Fields, at the expense of the author.[8] She spent about three years researching and writing the book and often drew from William Lloyd Garrison's antislavery newspaper The Liberator and likely David Walker's 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.[9]: 176–177 

Child's argument includes a distrust of the growing political power of the Southern states, which she perceived as a slavocracy. She addresses her concern in a chapter titled "Influence of Slavery on the Politics of the United States" and cites the Missouri Compromise as an example.[9]: 9 

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  1. ^ "Lydia Maria Child's Appeal". utc.iath.virginia.edu. Archived from the original on 2003-02-23. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  2. ^ "An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans | work by Child". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  3. ^ "Dangerous Ideas: Controversial Works from the William L. Clements Library - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans". clements.umich.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-09-20. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  4. ^ "An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans". www.umasspress.com. University of Massachusetts Press. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  5. ^ "An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans - Dictionary definition of An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans | Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  6. ^ "Lydia Maria Child". Poetry Foundation. 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  7. ^ Higginson, T. W., "Lydia Maria Child", in Eminent Women of the Age, Hartford, Connecticut: S. M. Betts & Company, 1868, p. 49; Higginson, T. W., "Lydia Maria Child", in Contemporaries, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899, p. 123.
  8. ^ Winship, Michael. American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995: 16. ISBN 0-521-45469-7
  9. ^ a b Karcher, Carolyn L. (1994). The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822321637.
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