| In 1829, a free black man living in Boston, David Walker, published an incendiary pamphlet entitled: "The Appeal". "The Appeal" called for slaves to rise up against their masters. Walker wrote: " I speak, Americans, for your good. We must and shall be free, I say in spite of you. You may do your best to keep us in wretchedness and misery, to enrich you and your children; but God will deliver us from under you. And woe, woe will be to you if we have to obtain our freedom by fighting." |
