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African-American abolitionist (1796 to 1830); author of Walker's Appeal.

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7 dated positions, c. 1829–1830, in their own words. Our reading of what David Walker has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingBlack Americans are the most degraded, wretched and abject people who have ever lived

    Their wordsHaving travelled over a considerable portion of these United States, and having, in the course of my travels taken the most accurate observations of things as they exist—the result of my observations has warranted the full and unshakened conviction, that we, (colored people of these United States) are the most degraded, wretched, and abject set of beings that ever lived since the world began, and I pray God, that none like us ever may live again until time shall be no more.

    ↗Walker's Appeal (1829-1830; 1848 edition)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

  3. Our readingAmericans punish Black people for nothing but having enriched them and their country

    Their wordsI have therefore come to the immovable conclusion, that they (Americans) have, and do continue to punish us for nothing else, but for enriching them and their country.

    ↗Walker's Appeal (1829-1830; 1848 edition)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

  5. Our readingBlack Americans must prove they are men, above all by spreading education and religion among the young

    religioneducation

    Their wordsYou have to prove to the Americans and the world, that we are men, and not brutes as we have been represented, and by millions treated. Remember, to let the aim of your labours among your brethren, and particularly the youths, be the dissemination of education and religion.

    ↗Walker's Appeal (1829-1830; 1848 edition)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

  7. Our readingAmerican ministers send missionaries abroad while keeping Black people at home in the deepest ignorance

    Their wordsYet the American ministers send out missionaries to convert the heathen, while they keep us and our children sunk at their feet in the most abject ignorance and wretchedness that ever a people was afflicted with since the world began.

    ↗Walker's Appeal (1829-1830; 1848 edition)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

  9. Our readingAmerica is more the country of Black Americans than of whites, since they enriched it with blood and tears

    Their wordsAmerica is more our country, than it is the whites—we have enriched it with our blood and tears.

    ↗Walker's Appeal (1829-1830; 1848 edition)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

  11. Our readingAmericans must raise Black people to respectability and make a national acknowledgement of the wrongs done to them

    Their wordsThe Americans may say or do as they please, but they have to raise us from the condition of brutes to that of respectable men, and to make a national acknowledgement to us for the wrongs they have inflicted on us.

    ↗Walker's Appeal (1829-1830; 1848 edition)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book

  13. Our readingAmericans' sufferings under Britain were not a hundredth as cruel as what they inflict on Black people

    Their wordsNow, Americans! I ask you candidly, was your sufferings under Great Britain one hundredth part as cruel and tyrannical as you have rendered ours under you?

    ↗Walker's Appeal (1829-1830; 1848 edition)gutenberg.org All 19 from this book