Most people haven’t heard of David Walker. Yet he should be a household name, as familiar as the other revered heroes of the Black freedom struggle. And we want to help make that happen.
This site has detailed information about David Walker and his work. You can read about his life, his famous anti-slavery pamphlet, Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, and his influence on the abolitionist movement. You can also learn what life was like for Black people in Boston, Massachusetts where Walker spent his most influential years.
The Appeal was published at a time of growing resistance to slavery. Free Black communities were expanding, and slave rebellions were on the rise. Walker used underground networks to circulate copies of his pamphlet throughout the South. This effort has been called “one of the boldest and most extensive plans to empower slaves ever conceived” in the U.S. before the Civil War.
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