Examples Of David Walker's Appeal

Aurabin Jean
David Walker’s Appeal
David Walker was a free black man who decided to fight for his sisters and brothers that were enslaved. Looking at his background Walker was born in or near a city in North Carolina called Wilmington, also born in the care of his free black mother but slave father. In his 20s, Walker decided to leave North Carolina to Charleston in South Carolina which was like a haven for determined free blacks. During his time there, many events took place such as the creation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church led by Denmark Vesey, Gabriel’s failed rebellion, Nat Turner’s uprising which could have all had a part of shaping David Walker into what he became which was an avid antislavery advocate. However, his time

7) since they “are called men, and of course are, and ought to be free” (pg. 7), but except blacks who are made to serve the whites and their children forever. For instance, he believed that present-day blacks are treated worse than the Egyptians were long ago because Africans are treated less than human and are chained up like beasts. He continued to mention intermarriage between any white person and black person that if he ever saw that happen he believed even in the marriage they would still be a slave to their partner. However, in Article II, he speaks about the ignorance of his brothers and how the reason the whites still have a hold on them is because of this. That they aren’t working together to fight against their masters that “the reason our natural enemies are enabled to keep their feet on our throats” (pg. 20) is because of the disunity among them. He wants to enlighten blacks and hopes that doing that and helping them see what situation they are in would help them overcome it. In addition, to black ignorance, Walker tells a story about a time where blacks escaped the

The way he talks about the black slave’s actions towards the whites and how blacks have a kinder soul than the whites. He says that “… there is a solemn awe in the hearts of blacks, as it respects murdering men: whereas the whites, (though they are great cowards) …, they murder all before them…” (pg. 24). In the story, he tells about the black woman helping the white man runaway this how he explains it. He sees that even though blacks have that kind part in them that to live and go against the whites being nice ever so little will hurt the whole operation. This article really spoke to the blacks about unity and that the only way to achieve that is to only care for one another and not the whites. To treat the whites the way they treat them is the only way they can