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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans. New York, John S. Taylor, 1836. Pet. in-8, VI, 216 pp., rouss., perc. ed. grise ed. un peu frottee. SABIN 12711. Pas dans Hogg ni dans Samuel J. May Anti- Slavery Collection. Envoi: "To Caroline Weston, From his affectionate friend. L.M. Child." (The book was the first anti- slavery work printed in America in book form,..) " In 1833 this book was published. It argued in favor of the immediate emancipation of the slaves without compensation to slaveholders, and she is sometimes said to have been the first white person to have written a book in support of this policy. She "surveyed slavery from a variety of angles - historical, political, economic, legal, and moral" to show that "emancipation was practicable and that Africans were intellectually equal to Europeans. Peutetre le premier plaidoyer en faveur de l'emancipation immediate des esclaves sans compensation aucune a leurs maitres. probable second edition, preceded by a very small printing in 1833.By 1833 Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was probably the best-known woman writer in America. She was the author of popular novels like Hobomok (1823) and a best-selling advice manual called The Frugal Housewife (1829), and founder of the nation's first children's magazine, The Juvenile Miscellany. But just as she predicted in her Preface to this protest against slavery and racism, this book would make her very unpopular with many of her former admirers. It is one of the first major American abolitionist texts, and in its arguments in favor of admitting African Americans into full membership in society, certainly one of the most radical