An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
by Lydia Maria Child
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About this eBook
- Author
- Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880
- Credits
- Produced by Suzanne Shell, C. St. Charleskindt and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861)
- Subject
- Slavery -- United States
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 28242
- Release Date
- March 3, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber's Note — AN APPEAL IN FAVOR OF THAT CLASS OF AMERICANS CALLED AFRICANS. — PREFACE. — CONTENTS — AN APPEAL, &c.
- 2.CHAPTER I.
- 3.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.
- 4.CHAPTER III.
- 5.CHAPTER IV.
- 6.CHAPTER V.
- 7.CHAPTER VI.
- 8.CHAPTER VII.
- 9.CHAPTER VIII. — INDEX. — Transcriber's Note
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