Mrs. [Lydia Maria] Child - An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

New York, John S. Taylor, 1836. Second Edition. Leather. 216p. REBOUND. A small hardcover book rebound with new leather spine and corners, retaining the original brown cloth boards. Very good condition overall. The edges of the cloth are wearing through. Foxing throughout the interior, but otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight. A highly influential work first published in 1833, and regarded as the first antislavery book published by a white woman. In this book, Child argues for the immediate emancipation of slaves and, radically for her time, opposes anti-miscegenation policies. For her extreme abolitionist position, she was socially ostracized and faced a great deal of criticism in both the North and South. However, her arguments won many prominent supporters such as William Ellery Channing and Charles Sumner. Measures approx. 7.5" x 5.

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