David Walker Preamble Of Appeal Analysis

David Walker and The Appeal
“Having travelled over a considerable portion of these Unites States, and having, in the course of my travels, taken the most accurate observations of things as they exist-the result of my observations has warranted the full and unshaken conviction, that we, (coloured people of these Unites States,) are the most degraded, wretched, and abject set of beings that ever lived since the world began; and I pray God that none like us ever may live again until time shall be no more.”, said by David Walker. Born a free African American man in North Carolina to a free mother and an enslaved father in 1785. In the document of David Walker, Preamble of Appeal to The Coloured Citizens of The World, it states that David writes a pamphlet about slavery and how the document spread all around the United States even with all the effort of
His past shows proof of that because before he wrote his pamphlet Walker had traveled across the United States widely to view other parts of the country that slavery took place in. After awhile Walker settled in Boston where he was effectively helping the poor, the needy, and the runaway slaves he had developed the reputation for being bountiful and compassionate. He even married a woman who had a been a run away slave; her name was Emily. He made a very deliberate choice in writing this because he knew that there would be people out there that would absolutely hate his seventy-six page pamphlet, so he took pride in what he wrote and stood behind it. In his pamphlet he even wanted slaves to stand up to their masters regardless of what bad things that could possibly happen for doing it. Some might say that Walker telling slaves to do this was outrageous, and foolish, but he knew what he was doing and the only way to get people's attention was to force slaves to stand up for what was right, and what was right was