Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

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  • Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

David Walker
Paperback
Politics Social Sciences, Sociology
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"I tell you, Americans, that unless you speedily alter course, you and your country are gone!"

In his Appeal, 30 years before the American Civil War, David Walker writes with unrelenting intensity about the abuses of white America and calls for slaves to rise up and fight for their freedom. Some abolitionists thought his views were too extreme for the time, but his radical writing laid the groundwork for future leaders like Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

"Would you not rather be killed than be a slave to a tyrant?"

This book inspired those fighting against slavery and frightened slaveholders, leading to new laws in the American south restricting slaves learning and reading. Walker's stirring call to action was the most radical piece of writing by an American black man in the nineteenth century, and is as relevant today as it was nearly two hundred years ago.

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