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“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” by David Walker

“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” by David Walker

by | Apr 23, 2026

David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World is seen as one of the most powerful antislavery texts written in the United States. David Walker was a free Black man born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He first published the pamphlet in Boston in 1829, and...