Lydia Maria Child

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans Lydia Maria Child

Reader, I beseech you not to throw down this volume as soon as you have glanced at the title. Read it, if your prejudices will allow, for the very truth's sake: -If I have the most trifling claims upon your good will, for an hour's amusement to yourself, or benefit to your children, read it for my sake: -Read it, if it be merely to find fresh occasion to sneer at the vulgarity of the cause: -Read it, from sheer curiosity to see what a woman (who had much better attend to her household concerns) will say upon such a subject: -Read it, on any terms, and my purpose will be gai