When Was David Walkers Appeal

Click here for the text of this historical document. David Walker’s Appeal, arguably the most radical of all anti-slavery documents, caused a great stir when it was published in September of 1829 with its call for slaves to revolt against their masters.

When was David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?

In 1829, he wrote the remarkable Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. In it, he exposed the hypocrisies of American claims of freedom and Christianity, attacked the plan to colonize Black Americans in Africa, and predicted that God’s justice promised violence for the enslaving United States.

When was an appeal to Colored Citizens of the World published?

Frontispiece from the 1830 edition of David Walker’s Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World…, first published in 1829.