Author: David WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life
Author: David WalkerPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This book documents the life and ideas of David Walker, an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Despite his father being enslaved, his mother's status as a free woman ensured his freedom as well (a legal principle known as partus sequitur ventrem). While living in Boston, Massachusetts, he collaborated with the African Grand Lodge (later named Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Jurisdiction of Massachusetts) to publish this book. It serves as a rallying call for black unity and resistance against slavery, exposing the injustices and brutalities of the institution and urging individuals to act according to religious and political principles. However, some were alarmed and fearful of the pamphlet's potential impact, particularly in the South where it was met with strong opposition, leading to the enactment of laws that prohibited circulation of "seditious publications."
Walker's Appeal in Four Articles
Author: David WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life
Author: Henry Highland GarnetPublisher:
ISBN: 9781697221657
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Comprised of Walker's Appeal, (the purpose of which was to encourage readers to take an active role in fighting their oppression, regardless of the risk, and to press white Americans to realize the moral and religious failure of slavery), a brief sketch of the life of David Walker, and Garnet's Address to the slaves of the United States of America.
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life: And Also, Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
Author: Henry Highland GarnetPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780359013623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This superb book unites the abolitionist famous speeches of David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet - two famous African American campaigners opposing slavery in the 19th century. Filled with vociferous opposition, both campaigners condemn racism and hatred underpinning the perpetuation of slavery. Insight into feelings of the time are dispensed: it was dangerous to be abolitionist as it meant standing against powerful economic interests controlling the Southern states. Retaliation, violent or otherwise, was a constant possibility. Unlike abolitionists more ingratiated with the Establishment of the era, Walker and Garnet did not fear criticizing otherwise lauded figures such as President Thomas Jefferson. As well as owning slaves, Jefferson published his opinion that black people were inherently inferior, and that their place in shackles was justified. That this view be espoused by a recent leader of the United States indicated, for Walker and Garnet, an urgent need for vigorous, sustained opposition.
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life
Author: Henry Highland GarnetPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781722449636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to th By Henry Highland Garnet A BRIEF SKETCHOF THELIFE AND CHARACTER OF DAVID WALKER. It is generally the desire of the reader of any intellectual production, to know something of the character and the life of the author. The character of David Walker is indicated in his writings. In regard to his life, but a few materials can be gathered; but what is known of him, furnishes proof to the opinion which the friends of man have formed of him-that he possessed a noble and a courageous spirit, and that he was ardently attached to the cause of liberty. Mr. Walker was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Sept. 28, 1785. His mother was a free woman, and his father was a slave. His innate hatred to slavery was very early developed. When yet a boy, he declared that the slaveholding South was not the place for him. His soul became so indignant at the wrongs which his father and his kindred bore, that he determined to find some portion of his country where he would see less to harrow up his soul. Said he, "If I remain in this bloody land, I will not live long. As true as God reigns, I will be avenged for the sorrow which my people have suffered. This is not the place for me-no, no. I must leave this part of the country. It will be a great trial for me to live on the same soil where so many men are in slavery; certainly I cannot remain where I must hear their chains continually, and where I must encounter the insults of their hypocritical enslaver. Go, I must." The youthful Walker embraced his mother, and received a mother's blessings, and turned his back upon North Carolina. His father died a few months before his birth; and it is a remarkable coincidence, that the son of the subject of this Memoir, was a posthumous child. After leaving home, David Walker travelled rapidly towards the North, shaking off the dust of his feet, and breathing curses upon the system of human slavery, America's darling institution. As might be expected, he met with trials during his journey; and at last he reached Boston, Mass., where he took up his permanent residence. There he applied himself to study, and soon learned to read and write, in order that he might contribute something to the cause of humanity. Mr. Walker, like most of reformers, was a poor man-he lived poor, and died poor. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Walker's Appeal; With a Brief Sketch of His Life - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Henry Highland GarnetPublisher:
ISBN: 9781297062797
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
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Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life and Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
Author: Garnet Henry HighlandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781318822652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life, and Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
Author: Henry GarnetPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979580106
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This superb book unites the abolitionist famous speeches of David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet - two famous African American campaigners opposing slavery in the 19th century. Filled with vociferous opposition, both of the campaigners condemn the racism and hatred that underpinned the perpetuation of slavery. Insight into the feelings of the time are dispensed: it was dangerous to be an abolitionist, as it meant standing against powerful economic interests controlling the Southern states. Retaliation, violent or otherwise, was a constant possibility. Unlike many abolitionists more ingratiated with the Establishment of the era, Walker and Garnet did not fear criticizing otherwise lauded figures such as President Thomas Jefferson. As well as owning slaves, Jefferson published his opinion that black people were inherently inferior, and that their place in shackles was justified. That this view be espoused by a recent leader of the United States indicated, for Walker and Garnet, an urgent need for vigorous, sustained opposition. Railing against these opinions, Walker's Appeal calls for abolition of slavery, and the education and establishment of rights for black Americans. Walker believed that the white Americans feared educating black people, and that slaves who knew enough would cast off their oppressors. Furthermore, he criticizes the religious authorities; despite the sentiments of Christianity of goodwill to all men, many preachers hypocritically chose not to extend these to the black slaves of the United States. Following on from David Walker's address of 1839, Henry Highland Garnet delivered a further speech to the National Congress of 1843. His views, broadly similar to Walker's, were rejected. However the momentum behind abolitionism was strengthening, and the message of both campaigners that the USA could be redeemed and reconciled from its legacy resonated with sympathetic white Americans. These speeches thus foreshadowed the election of Abraham Lincoln and, ultimately, emancipation.
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life
Author: David Walker and Henry Highland GarnetPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781545451694
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life By David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet
The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"
Author: Marcy J. DiniusPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081229839X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830) as one of the most politically radical and consequential antislavery texts ever published, yet the pamphlet's significant impact on North American nineteenth-century print-based activism has gone under-examined. In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumentatively and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous activist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown, and the pamphlets that they wrote and published in the United States and Canada between 1831 and 1851. She also examines how Walker's Appeal exerted a powerful and lasting influence on William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator and other publications by White antislavery activists. Dinius contends that scholars have neglected the positive, transnational, and transformative effects of Walker's Appeal on print-based political activism and literary and book history—that is, its primarily textual effects—due to an enduringly narrow focus on the violence that the pamphlet may have occasioned. She offers as an alternative a broadened view of activism and resistance that centers the works of Walker, Stewart, Apess, Quinn, Garnet, and Brown within an exploration of radical forms of authorship, publication, civic participation, and resistance. In doing so, she has written a major contribution to African American literary studies and the history of the book in antebellum America.