David Walker : the politics of racial egalitarianism /
David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted his life to fighting slavery a...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken :
Polity,
2024.
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| Series: | Black lives series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Envisioning David Walker's life in the South
- David Walker moves from the South to the North
- David Walker's reproof of Black's unequal treatment and how to promote racial equality
- David Walker's fearless speach inthe Appeal and it's aftermath
- Conclusion: the usefulness of David Walker's thought for an analysis of antiblack racism today