David
Walker “An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World,”
Useful Links
Today in History (Short excerpt) https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/appeal-citizens/ objective and impact of Walker's Appeal https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2930.html David Walker: Boston's fiery anti-slavery writer Discusses David Walker and his fight against slavery https://www.boston.gov/news/david-walker-bostons-fiery-anti-slavery-writer |
Primary Sources
This Primary Source explores the idea of slavery and abolitionism and can be used along with the Nat Turner’s Rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison’s War against Slavery, and Frederick Douglass’s Path to Freedom Narratives, as well as the Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845 Primary Source.
Questions
Sourcing Questions
billofrightsinstitute.org/activities/david-walker-an-appeal-to-the-coloured-citizens-of-the-world-1829
Excerpts from 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
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/walker.html
(1828) David Walker, “The Necessity of A General Union Among Us”.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1828-david-walker-necessity-general-union-among-us/
Questions
Sourcing Questions
- Who was the intended audience of the pamphlet?
- What other audience(s) might Walker have had in mind?
- What distinguished Walker’s approach to the process of ending slavery from the standard approach at the time
billofrightsinstitute.org/activities/david-walker-an-appeal-to-the-coloured-citizens-of-the-world-1829
Excerpts from 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
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/walker.html
(1828) David Walker, “The Necessity of A General Union Among Us”.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1828-david-walker-necessity-general-union-among-us/