This influential work by Lydia Maria Child is a historical perspective on slavery and race that provoked a storm of controversy when it was published. Child moves from past to ...

Reproduction of the original: An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

Reproduction of the original: An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

In 1836, Mrs. Child wrote about the horrors African men and women endured after being kidnapped and transported to America.In 1808, the United States abolished the slave trade ...