28 Sept 1829 Jahr - An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.

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On this day David Walker published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, a pamphlet denouncing slavery and racism. Though labeled seditious with penalties for those who circulated it, The Appeal was widely read by 1830.

David Walker (1796[or 1797]-1830) was a courageous and visionary African American leader and activist. An evangelical Christian, Walker was a deeply religious man. In his Appeal, he takes white Christians to task for supporting slavery and its savage and unchristian treatment of fellow human beings. Such treatment was not only inhumane, Walker asserted, it was also hypocritical: after fighting for emancipation from Britain and founding a nation based on equality, white Americans continued to enslave and degrade Black people throughout the Republic.

The Appeal was published at a time of growing resistance to slavery. Free Black communities were expanding, and slave rebellions were on the rise. Walker used underground networks to circulate copies of his pamphlet throughout the South.

His son Edward G. Walker (also known as Edwin G. Walker) was born after Walker's death, and in 1866 would become the first black man elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature.

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