Title:  Walker’s Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet’s Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

Author:  David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet

Release Date:  August 12, 2005 [EBook #16516]

Language:  English

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WALKER’S APPEAL,

With A brief sketch of his life.

BY

Henry Highland Garnet.

AND ALSO

GARNET’S ADDRESS

To the slaves of the united states of America.

New-York: 
Printed by J.H.  Tobitt, 9 Spruce st
1848.

PREFACE.

Such is the very high esteem which is entertained for the memory of David Walker, and so general is the desire to preserve his “Appeal,” that the subscriber has undertaken, and performed the task of re-publication, with a brief notice of his life, having procured permission from his widow, Mrs. Dewson.

The work is valuable, because it was among the first, and was actually the boldest and most direct appeal in behalf of freedom, which was made in the early part of the Anti-Slavery Reformation.  When the history of the emancipation of the bondmen of America shall be written, whatever name shall be placed first on the list of heroes, that of the author of the Appeal will not be second.

Troy, N.Y., April 12, 1848.

A BRIEF SKETCH

OF THE

Life and character of David Walker.

It is generally the desire of the reader of any intellectual production, to know something of the character and the life of the author.  The character of David Walker is indicated in his writings.  In regard to his life, but a few materials can be gathered; but what is known of him, furnishes proof to the opinion which the friends of man have formed of him—­that he possessed a noble and a courageous spirit, and that he was ardently attached to the cause of liberty.