In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North
Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political
documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the
Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian
treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged
his "afflicted and slumbering brethren" to rise up and cast off
their chains. Walker worked tirelessly to circulate his book via
underground networks in the South, and he was so successful that
Southern lawmakers responded with new laws cracking down on
"incendiary" antislavery material. Although Walker died in 1830,
the Appeal remained a rallying point for African Americans for many
years to come, anticipating the radicalism of later black leaders,
from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King, Jr.
In this new edition of the Appeal, the first in over thirty
years, Peter P. Hinks, the leading authority on David Walker,
provides a masterly introduction and extensive annotations that
incorporate the most up-to-date research on Walker, much of it
first reported by Hinks in his highly acclaimed biography, To
Awaken My Afflicted Brethren. Hinks also includes a unique appendix
of documents showing the contemporary response -- from North and
South, black and white -- to the Appeal itself and Walker's
attempts to distribute it in the South.
Historians and political activists have long recognized the
importance of Walker's Appeal. At last we have an edition worthy of
its persuasive immediacy and its enduring place in American
history.
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