Final Project

Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World was highly controversial even after its first publication. Southern authorities tried to suppress its circulation and even many Northern abolitionists opposed it, calling it "incendiary". Some contemporary whites blamed the pamphlet for Nat Turner's 1831 insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia.

Contents of this annotation:

  1. Appeal Frontispiece