An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

[4][5][6] According to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "it was the first anti-slavery work ever printed in America in book form".

[8] She spent about three years researching and writing the book and often drew from William Lloyd Garrison's antislavery newspaper The Liberator and likely David Walker's 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.

[9]: 176–177 Child's argument includes a distrust of the growing political power of the Southern states, which she perceived as a slavocracy.

She addresses her concern in a chapter titled "Influence of Slavery on the Politics of the United States" and cites the Missouri Compromise as an example.

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