David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World, but In Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America David Wa

by David Walker

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"David Walker's Appeal" is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century. Startling in its intensity, unrelenting in its attacks on slavery and white racism, it ala... Read more
"David Walker's Appeal" is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century. Startling in its intensity, unrelenting in its attacks on slavery and white racism, it alarmed Southern slaveholders, inspired Northern abolitionists, and hastened the sectional conflicts that led to the Civil War. In this new edition of the "Appeal," the distinguished historian Sean Wilentz draws on a generation of innovative research to throw fresh light on Walker's life and ideas--and their enduring importance.
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File size5.35(w)x8.05(h)x0.38(d)
Print pages128
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date April 30, 1995
ISBN9780809015818
David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830)[N 1] was an African-American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was a slave, his mother was free so therefore he wa...

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