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Peter P. Hinks is the author of To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance. He has worked extensively as a public historian, editor, and teacher. Stephen Kantrowitz is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin¿Madison. He is the author of More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829¿1889 and Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Leslie A...

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, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian treatment blacks suffered in the United States, Walker challenged his "afflicted and slumbering brethren" to rise up and cast off their chains. Walker worked tirelessly to circulate his book via und...

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