David Walker The True Barbarians Analysis

Reading those chapters had revealed many unknown truths about American history. However, I was most moved by the ideas of David Walker, a free black man who lived in Boston. Takaki wondered how he learned how to write and read. The writer wrote, “Somehow, Walker learned to read and write; he studied history and pondered why blacks in America were in such a wretched condition”( Page 98). Walker promoted the idea that the whites were the true barbarians due to the practices of slavery. In addition, Walker realized that blacks in north were also struggling because they were relegated to menial labor and they were looked at as intellectually