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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CHILD, LYDIA MARIA. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Call Africans. 216 pages. Small 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth; title within gilt border on the spine; some wear to the spine with slight loss of cloth at extremities, and along the front joint; occasional foxing. New York: John S. Taylor, 1836
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. Sabin12711.
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