David Walker

David Walker (c. 1796–1830) was an African American abolitionist and author born free in Wilmington, North Carolina, to a free Black mother and an enslaved father. He moved to Boston in the 1820s, where he published his influential 1829 pamphlet 'Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World,' a radical call for Black resistance against slavery and racism that terrified white Southerners. Walker died suddenly in Boston under mysterious circumstances, likely from tuberculosis, leaving a lasting legacy in the antislavery movement.

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