Appeal to the Christian Women of the South.
[New York: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, corner of Spruce and Nassau Streets. Price 6 1-4 cents single. 62 1-2 cents per dozen. $4 per hundred, (1836)]. 36pp, disbound with caption title [as issued]. Imprint from colphon. Bit of light spotting, else Very Good.
Angelina Grimke, from a remarkable South Carolina family, was the "blue-eyed aristocratic daughter of a slaveholder" who "left the slavery-saturated milieu of her native Charleston for the freer humanitarianism of Quaker Philadelphia. A feminist and an abolitionist, she simultaneously rode the two horses of her enthusiasm. The Appeal was her first published work, and her most notorious one. In it she begged the women of the South to fight against Slavery in the name of religion... The Quakers threatened to disown her for entering in such an unwomanly fashion onto the scene of public debate. Postmasters in the South burned the pamphlet. Charleston banned her. The Appeal survives as an outstanding exemplar of anti-slavery literature" [LCP Negro History Exhibition], arguing not only slavery's violation of biblical law but of the Declaration of Independence as well.
Several editions were printed in 1836, the year of first publication. This is an unusual printing: all recorded copies have caption titles, as here, but others include a reference to the Anti-Slavery Examiner. This one does not. Of the sources consulted, only NUC records this variant, with three locations.
219 NUC 0525060 [3]. See Work 300, Dumond 62, LCP Negro History Exhibition 84, LCP 4371-4373, Blockson 9187 for other printings.
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