[ABOLITION]. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans and other works.

A group of 4 works related to enslavement and abolition, comprising:

CHILD, Lydia Marie (1802-1880). An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. New York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1836. 8vo, 216pp. Illustrated with 2 plates. Coleridge quote on title page.

Child was a vocal abolitionist, women's rights activist, and proponent of racial equality. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans was the first written by a white woman in support of the immediate emancipation of slaves without compensation to their enslavers.

THOMPSON, George (?-1893). Prison Life & Reflections; or, a Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson, Who Suffered An Unjust and Cruel Imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary, for Attempting to Aid Some Slaves to Liberty. Three Parts in One Volume. Hartford: Published by A. Work, 1854. Frontispiece. 377pp.

George Thompson, a seminary student and abolitionist at the Mission Institute in Quincy, Illinois, joined with friends Alanson Work and James E. Burr in an effort to liberate Black slaves in Missouri. The three were arrested for their plotting, and incarcerated until their trial. Thompson served four years and eleven months in Missouri prisons. While in prison he maintained praise services and kept a journal which became the nucleus of his Prison Life and Reflections.

GIDDINGS, Joshua R. (1795-1864). The Exiles of Florida
or, The Crimes Committed by our Government Against the Maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other Slave States, Seeking Protection Under Spanish Laws. Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster and Co., 1858. 338pp.

A text describing injustices faced by "maroons" and the oppressive violence of America's system of enslavement. The author, Joshua Giddings, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio and a leading abolitionist of the era.

BAKER, Sir Samuel W. (1821-1893). Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. 2 volumes. London: Published by Macmillan & Co., 1874.

Baker was an English explorer, naturalist, writer, and abolitionist. In 1869, at the request of the khedive Ismail, he led a military expedition to the equatorial regions of the Nile with the object of suppressing the slave trade.

[ABOLITION]. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans and other works.

[ABOLITION]. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans and other works.