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Walker's Appeal in Four Articles - An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (Hardcover)
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Walker's Appeal in Four Articles - An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (Hardcover)
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The rage of blacks in slavery-era America is not something we today
must merely imagine: we can read their angry words in documents
like these. David Walker, born to a free black woman, was by the
1820s a leading black intellectual and a proponent of black unity
as a necessary precursor to throwing off the shackles of slavery.
His Appeal, published in 1829, warned of a violent and bloody slave
insurgency, and startled even abolitionists with its vehemence. He
was rehabilitated by Henry Highland Garnet two decades later, when
he-a runaway slave since childhood-republished it, in the single
1848 volume of which this is a replica, along with his own Address
to the Slaves of the United States of America. Garnet's call for
massive slave uprisings had been similarly rebuffed several years
earlier, but worsening tensions between the North and the South,
and between slave owners and abolitionists, created an atmosphere
in which rising militancy was more welcome. In their passionate
writings, the bitter wrath of Walker and Garnet echoes across the
decades, reminders of the shameful past that continues to haunt
America as a nation to this day.
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