David Walker Appeal ...
David Walker
David Walker appeal was mainly appealing to colored citizens of the world mainly in the United States. After traveling the world and observing the conditions slaves were put in David Walker, who denounced slavery urged slaves who lived a life of fear and misery to fight for their freedom and they should rise up in rebellion against their oppressors. Walker was trying to appeal to them that things did not have to continue to exist the way they were because they had just as much freedom to life as their masters did. David Walker talks about the cruelties the African American slaves suffered at the hands of their white masters saying that Slavery had made African Americans into “the most wretched degraded and abject set of beings that ever lived since the world begun.” The suffering of the slaves were compared to the suffering of the Israelites in Egypt, the Helots on Sparta and the Roman slaves. David Walker claim was that “White Americans having reduced us to the wretched state of slavery treat us in that condition more cruel (they being an enlightened and Christian people,) than any heathen nation did any people whom it had reduced to our condition. By this claim David Walker refers back to the Israelites in Egypt under pharaoh and his people who were oppressed through forced labor such as building Pithom and Rameses, which were cities, built for pharaoh. Walker said that he made this extract to show “how much lower we are held, and how much more cruel we are treated by the Americans, than the children of Jacob, by the Egyptians.” Another claim that David Walker makes is that all the inhabitants of this earth except for the sons of Africa are called men, and he believed that they should have been free. But according to the American people they ought to be slaves to the people of America and their descendants forever. Even though Walker believed that everyone should be treated equally and that there is only one master who is Jesus
David Walker appeal was mainly appealing to colored citizens of the world mainly in the United States. After traveling the world and observing the conditions slaves were put in David Walker, who denounced slavery urged slaves who lived a life of fear and misery to fight for their freedom and they should rise up in rebellion against their oppressors. Walker was trying to appeal to them that things did not have to continue to exist the way they were because they had just as much freedom to life as their masters did. David Walker talks about the cruelties the African American slaves suffered at the hands of their white masters saying that Slavery had made African Americans into “the most wretched degraded and abject set of beings that ever lived since the world begun.” The suffering of the slaves were compared to the suffering of the Israelites in Egypt, the Helots on Sparta and the Roman slaves. David Walker claim was that “White Americans having reduced us to the wretched state of slavery treat us in that condition more cruel (they being an enlightened and Christian people,) than any heathen nation did any people whom it had reduced to our condition. By this claim David Walker refers back to the Israelites in Egypt under pharaoh and his people who were oppressed through forced labor such as building Pithom and Rameses, which were cities, built for pharaoh. Walker said that he made this extract to show “how much lower we are held, and how much more cruel we are treated by the Americans, than the children of Jacob, by the Egyptians.” Another claim that David Walker makes is that all the inhabitants of this earth except for the sons of Africa are called men, and he believed that they should have been free. But according to the American people they ought to be slaves to the people of America and their descendants forever. Even though Walker believed that everyone should be treated equally and that there is only one master who is Jesus