David Walker
was born in Wilmington, North Carolina the son of a free mother and a slave
father, making Walker a free man. He
moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1826, saying of the south, that if he stayed “in
this bloody land, I will not live long. As true as God reigns, I will be
avenged for the sorrows which my people have suffered." Once in Boston, Walker went to work for the
abolitionist newspaper the “Freedom’s Journal”. Walker published an article September 28th
1828 that would become known as “Walker’s Appeal”. The Appeal denounced slavery and called for violence
toward white men, saying that liberty would only come through rebellion.
Slave owners
were naturally worried and had a reward put out for Walker’s capture, dead or
alive. In Georgia, the state legislature
the circulation of any materials inciting slaves to revolt, would to be a
capital offense.
Walker died
June 28th 1830 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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