David Walker Appeal - Summary PDF

Preview

Summary

Summary...

Description

Jean-Louis 1

Jean-Louis Emmanuel-Christy Professor Timothy Coogan SSH 101/8757 Themes In American History/ David Walker Appeal 21 February 2021

1. Why does Walker address his pamphlet to “the colored citizens of the world” and not just the United States? 2. What lessons does Walker think Black Americans should learn from the history of the ancient world and that of Haiti?

David Walker’s rich experiences and observations by traveling throughout many regions in the United States of America led him to conclude that a reform or a change ought to occur in the way that Black people were seen and treated. Walker’s perspective was broadened by comparing the living conditions, the level of respect of human rights, and the social opportunities that were granted to people coming from all over the world except for coloured men. The Jews, the inhabitants of south and north America, the Greeks, and the Irish, to mention a few, were all allowed to live in decency while the Africans being enslaved, tortured, forced to constantly work in mines, and fields to provide wealth for other races above-mentioned all over the world, from generation to generation. With Black Americans in particular, Walker believed that they unify their resources and energy stiving to overcome their conditions and the established system that they have been put in, taking as illustrations uprisings that occurred in antiquity and also the Haitian revolution by which wretchedness and wickedness on African slaves were overturned....