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David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America

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David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America - Walker, David, and Wilentz, Sean (Introduction by)
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David Walker's Appeal is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century. Startling in its intensity, unrelenting in its attacks on slavery and white racism, it alarmed Southern slaveholders, inspired Northern abolitionists, and hastened the sectional conflicts that led to the Civil War. In this new edition of the Appeal , the distinguished historian Sean Wilentz draws on a generation of innovative research to throw fresh light on Walker's ...

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David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America 1995, Hill & Wang, New York

ISBN-13: 9780809015818

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