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David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) [a] was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well ( partus sequitur ventrem ).
Thomas Dalton (abolitionist), President; William Guion Nell, Vice President; James George Barbadoes, Secretary. [1] [2] One of their most influential founders was David Walker, who probably expressed many of their ideas in his 1829 Appeal in Four Articles to the Colored Citizens of the World. Walker had moved to Boston and in 1825 was the owner ...
David Walker was a prominent abolitionist and a member of the General Colored Association, and he influenced Maria Stewart's views on social justice and activism. His piece on race relations entitled David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829), called for Black people to rise against oppression and demand their rights. [5]
Edward Garrison Walker was born in Edgefield, South Carolina in 1830 to Eliza Walker, [nb 1] the widow of David Walker, who had died in early August 1830. [nb 2] At the time when the couple was expecting the birth of Edward, they already had a daughter named Lydia Ann.
David Walker (abolitionist) (1796–1830), American black abolitionist; David Walker (author) (1911–1992), Scottish-born Canadian writer; David Walker (journalist) (born 1941), American television news anchor; Sir David Walker (RAF administrative officer) (born 1956), Royal Air Force air marshal and Master of the Household to the Queen; David ...
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An 1851 poster warning the "colored people of Boston" about policemen acting as slave catchers, pursuant to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. The Boston Vigilance Committee (1841–1861) was an abolitionist organization formed in Boston, Massachusetts, to protect escaped slaves from being kidnapped and returned to slavery in the South.