Monday, April 18, 2011

Abolitionist Movement-Clairissa and Madeline-Deborah

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Walker,_David_(abolitionist)

David Walker, Son of a slave, Who sold clothes in Boston wrote a pamphlet called Walker's Appeal. This had urged Black's to fight for their freedom. The Appeal made southern slaveholders so upset that one of them offered a reward for David Walker's murder or capture. One summer day in 1830 Walker was found dead near the doorway of his shop.

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