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Other uniform titles: | Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Walker, David, 1785-1830. Walker's appeal, in four articles. 3rd and last edition. 1830.
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Other authors / contributors: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.
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ISBN: | 9780807869482 0807869481 9781469602820 1469602822 9780807869475 0807869473 9780807869475
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Reprint of: 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. Boston : Revised and published by David Walker, 1830. Prepared using the transcribed electronic text used in the "Documenting the American South" (DocSouth)--Project. Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (JSTOR, viewed on December 9, 2020).
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Summary: | "First published in 1829, Walker's Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two subsequent versions of his document (including the reprinted 1830 edition published shortly before Walker's death) were increasingly radical. Addressed to the whole world but directed primarily to people of color around the world, the 87-page pamphlet by a free black man born in North Carolina and living in Boston advocates immediate emancipation and slave rebellion. Walker asks the slaves among his readers whether they wouldn't prefer to "be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant." He advises them not to "trifle" if they do rise up, but rather to kill those who would continue to enslave them and their wives and children. Copies of the pamphlet were smuggled by ship in 1830 from Boston to Wilmington, North Carolina, Walker's childhood home, causing panic among whites. In 1830, members of North Carolina's General Assembly had the Appeal in mind as they tightened the state's laws dealing with slaves and free black citizens. The resulting stricter laws led to more policies that repressed African Americans, freed and slave alike"--Publisher's description.
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Other form: | Print version: Walker, David, 1785-1830. Walker's appeal in four articles. 3rd and last ed. Boston : D. Walker, 1830
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