Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

History

Henry Highland Garnet

David Walker

Americas

Hard Press

<p>Such is the very high esteem which is entertained for the memory of David Walker, and so general is the desire to preserve his "Appeal." that the subscriber has undertaken, and performed the task of re-publication, with a brief notice of his life, having procured permission from his widow, Mrs. Dewson. The work is valuable, because it was among the first,m ans was actually the boldest and most direct appeal in behalf of freedom, which was made in the early part of the Anti-Slavery Reformation. When the history of the emancipation of the bondsmen of America shall be written, whatever name shall be placed first on the list of heroes, that of the author of the Appeal will not be second. --- Preface from 1848 edition</p>

Walker's Appeal and Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

Reference

Winston-Derek Pub

<p>The whites want slaves, and want us for their slaves, but some of them will curse the day they ever saw us. As true as the sun ever shone in its meridian splendor, my colour will root some of them out of the very face of the earth. They shall have enough of making slaves of, and butchering, and murdering us in the manner which they have. -from Walker's Appeal in Four Articles The rage of blacks in slavery-era America is not something we today must merely imagine: we can read their angry words in documents like these. David Walker, born to a free black woman, was by the 1820s a leading black intellectual and a proponent of black unity as a necessary precursor to throwing off the shackles of slavery. His Appeal, published in 1829, warned of a violent and bloody slave insurgency, and startled even abolitionists with its vehemence. He was rehabilitated by Henry Highland Garnet two decades later, when he-a runaway slave since childhood-republished it, in the single 1848 volume of which this is a replica, along with his own Address to the Slaves of the United States of America. Garnet's call for massive slave uprisings had been similarly rebuffed several years earlier, but worsening tensions between the North and the South, and between slave owners and abolitionists, created an atmosphere in which rising militancy was more welcome. In their passionate writings, the bitter wrath of Walker and Garnet echoes across the decades, reminders of the shameful past that continues to haunt America as a nation to this day. DAVID WALKER (c. 1780s-1830) was a contributor to Freedom's Journal, the first black newspaper in America. HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET (1815-1882) was editor of the black newspaper The Clarion, and, after the Civil War, served as the president of Avery College and as an advisor to President James Garfield.</p>

Walker's Appeal in Four Articles: An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (Cosimo Classics History)

Self-Help

Motivational

Cosimo Classics

Let Slavery Die: The Life of Henry Highland Garnet and His 1865 Discourse Before the House of Representatives

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