An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child.

Contents

• AN APPEAL IN FAVOR OF THAT CLASS OF AMERICANS CALLED AFRICANS.6
• PREFACE.8
• AN APPEAL, &c.10
• CHAPTER I.11
• CHAPTER II.42
• Proposition 1.—Slavery hereditary and perpetual.46
• Prop. 2.—Labor compulsory and uncompensated, &c.47
• Prop. 3.—Slaves considered personal chattels, liable to be sold, pledged, &c.49
• Prop. 4.—Slaves can have no legal claim to any property.50
• Prop. 5.—No colored man can be evidence against a white man, &c.53
• Prop. 6.—The master has absolute power to punish a slave, &c.54
• Prop. 7.—The slave never allowed to resist a white man.56
• Prop. 8.—Slaves cannot redeem themselves or change masters.57
• Prop. 9.—Slave unprotected in his domestic relations.58
• Prop. 10.—The laws obstruct emancipation.59
• Prop. 11.—Operation of the laws interferes with religious privileges.61
• Prop. 12.—Whole power of the laws exerted to keep negroes in ignorance.64
• Prop. 13.—There is a monstrous inequality of law and right.64
• Prop. 14.—The laws operate oppressively on free colored people.68
• CHAPTER III.82
• CHAPTER IV.110
• CHAPTER V.128
• CHAPTER VI.153
• CHAPTER VII.182
• CHAPTER VIII.201
• INDEX.223
• Transcriber's Note228
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE232

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