Summary Of Our Wretchedness In Consequences Of Slavery

David Walker; one of the many African American who were still slaves in the 1800s. Walker was born in 1796 in North Carolina with no father figure. His mother was free from slavery while his father, when he was alive, was a slave. During the later years of his life, Walker moved to Massachusetts. He started a small business there and married a woman who happened to be a fugitive slave. Even though slavery had been abolished after the Civil War, the discrimination and hate continued. Based on this background information, this is why he became a very avid antislavery advocate. In the year 1829, David Walker published his appeal, which was a collection of four articles he had written. Throughout these articles, Walker hits on many ideas and
Article I titled “Our Wretchedness In Consequence Of Slavery” is the most interesting to me as it includes religion, history and tends to express his anger with the whites. Walker compared the Egyptian slavery to the Christian American slavery of his time and stated that the Egyptians treated the slaves just as cruel as the Americans do today. He also includes quotes from the Bible which state that the Pharaoh said to Joseph that he shall be in control over his house and rule all his people. Along with his religious references, he frequently speaks his mind on how he feels. He says things such as how the Americans are “the most wretched, degraded, and abject set of beings ever since the world began” and “I would not give a pinch of a snuff to be married to any white person I ever saw in all the days of my life”. His inclusion of this information makes this article great for opening is work and the most intriguing. Although each article includes information to persuade the reader, one article doesn’t persuade me or interest me as
Compared to the other articles, this one solely talks about religion and his view on what God thinks. Even being a Christian myself, I just don’t think every reader can relate to the ideas and thoughts of Walker and the other Religious slaves. I have also been hearing Christian beliefs all my life so the article is almost repetitive to me in a sense. I also tend to like writings with varying information throughout and this article stays on Religion too much for me to be intrigued. Although the article is the least intriguing to me, it does include a powerful quote however. “I call God, I call angels, I call men, to witness, that your destruction is at hand, and will be speedily consummated unless you REPENT.” This quote does show Walkers strength in his beliefs and does help prove his arguments involving