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Walker's appeal, in four articles : together with a preamble, to the Coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America, written in Boston, State of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829 by David Walker; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>First published in 1829, Walker's <i>Appeal</i> called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two subsequent versions of his document (including the reprinted 1830 edition published shortly before Walker's death) were increasingly radical. Addressed to the whole world but directed primarily to people of color around the world, the 87-page pamphlet by a free black man born in North Carolina and living in Boston advocates immediate emancipation and slave rebellion. Walker asks the slaves among his readers whether they wouldn't prefer to "be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant." He advises them not to "trifle" if they do rise up, but rather to kill those who would continue to enslave them and their wives and children. Copies of the pamphlet were smuggled by ship in 1830 from Boston to Wilmington, North Carolina, Walker's childhood home, causing panic among whites. In 1830, members of North Carolina's General Assembly had the <i>Appeal</i> in mind as they tightened the state's laws dealing with slaves and free black citizens. The resulting stricter laws led to more policies that repressed African Americans, freed and slave alike.</p> <p>A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration b
- Author
- David Walker; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : distributed by University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807869475
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Science
Other editions & translations
- David Walker's appeal, in four articles : together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of th (1993)
- David Walker's appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the (2000)
- David Walker's appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the (1995)
- Walker's Appeal in Four Articles: An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (Cosimo Classics History) (2005)
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