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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

By Lydia Maria Child

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AN APPEAL IN FAVOR OF THAT CLASS OF AMERICANS CALLED AFRICANS.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS
AN APPEAL, &c.
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
  - Proposition 1.—Slavery hereditary and perpetual.
  - Prop. 2.—Labor compulsory and uncompensated, &c.
  - Prop. 3.—Slaves considered personal chattels, liable to be sold, pledged, &c.
  - Prop. 4.—Slaves can have no legal claim to any property.
  - Prop. 5.—No colored man can be evidence against a white man, &c.
  - Prop. 6.—The master has absolute power to punish a slave, &c.
  - Prop. 7.—The slave never allowed to resist a white man.
  - Prop. 8.—Slaves cannot redeem themselves or change masters.
  - Prop. 9.—Slave unprotected in his domestic relations.
  - Prop. 10.—The laws obstruct emancipation.
  - Prop. 11.—Operation of the laws interferes with religious privileges.
  - Prop. 12.—Whole power of the laws exerted to keep negroes in ignorance.
  - Prop. 13.—There is a monstrous inequality of law and right.
  - Prop. 14.—The laws operate oppressively on free colored people.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- INDEX.
  - Transcriber's Note