It is the first book in support of this policy written by a white woman.[4][5][6] According to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "it was the first anti-slavery work ever printed in America in book form".[7] It was published by Allen & Ticknor in Boston, a predecessor to Ticknor and Fields, at the expense of the author.[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]Шаблон:Rp
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.[9]Шаблон:Rp
↑Higginson, T. W., "Lydia Maria Child", in Eminent Women of the Age, Hartford, Connecticut: S. M. Betts & Company, 1868, p. 49; Higginson, T. W., "Lydia Maria Child", in Contemporaries, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899, p. 123.
↑Winship, Michael. American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995: 16. Шаблон:ISBN
