to call on someone or the general public to take action; to appeal for help, support, or sympathy

to appeal to others or request earnestly; to entreat or implore

(literary) to cry out to heaven for help or justice; to appeal to the heavens

The Chinese translation and adaptation of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, notably the version by [[林纾|林紓|lin2 shu1]].