To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren

by Hinks, Peter P.

• ISBN13: 9780271015781
• ISBN10: 0271015780
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

In 1829, David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, An Appeal to The Colored Citizens of the World.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Strange to ever keep in mind": The World of David Walker
Born Free into Slavery: David Walker's Early Years	p. 1
"There is a great work for you to do": Coming of Age in Vesey's Charleston	p. 22
"Even here in Boston, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch": Settling Down in Massachusetts	p. 63
"To make them think and feel, and act, as one solid body": The Appeal and the Black Reform Movement	p. 91
Getting the Good Word Out: Circulating Walker's Appeal	p. 116
History and Oratory: The Intellectual Background of the Appeal	p. 173
"I am one of the oppressed, degraded and wretched sons of Africa": An Exegesis of the Appeal	p. 196
"Why are the Americans so very fearfully terrified respecting my book?": The Appeal and the Problem of Antebellum Black Resistance	p. 237
Analysis of Names on the Charleston AME Petition	p. 261
Slave and Free Black Members of the African Church Who Were Associated with the Vesey Affair	p. 263
David Walker's Associates in Boston	p. 265
Distribution of Occupations in Black Boston, 1826	p. 267
David Walker's Death and the History of His Family	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 289
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