Propositions Defining Slavery and Emancipation (1833)
Lydia Maria Child
But if slaves were allowed to redeem themselves progressively, by purchasing one day of the week after another, as they can in the Spanish colonies, habits of industry would be gradually formed, and enterprise would be stimulated, by their successful efforts to acquire a little property. And if they afterward worked better as free laborers than they now do as slaves, it would surely benefit their masters as well as themselves. . . .
But the slave holders try to stop all the efforts of benevolence, by vociferous complains about infringing upon their property; and justice is so subordinate to self-interest, that the unrighteous claim is silently allowed, and even openly supported, by those who ought to blush for themselves, as Christians and as republicans. . . .
-The ideas articulated by Child are most similar to those in the antebellum era who

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Lydia Maria Child's ideas focus on the gradual emancipation of slaves through their own efforts and the moral and economic benefits of such a process. This aligns with the broader antebellum reform movements that sought social and individual improvements, including abolitionism, rather than the specific political positions or economic policies represented by the other options.