Chapter 28: Free Black David Walker cries out for freedom and justice. 

In September 1829, Walker self-publishes his 79 page pamphlet titled Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, But in Particular To Those of the United States of America. His words presage future laments by blacks like Henry Highland Garnett and Frederick Douglas.

We colored people are the most degraded, wretched, and abject set of beings
that ever lived…We are destined to dig (the white man’s) mines and work their
farms, and thus go on enriching them from one generation to another with
our blood and our tears!!!!

I tell you Americans! That unless you speedily alter your course, you and your
Country are gone!!!!!! For God Almighty will tear up the very face of the earth!!!
I call God, I call Angels, I call men to witness, that the destruction of the Americans
is at hand, and will be speedily consummated unless they repent.

You have to prove to the Americans and the world, that we are MEN, and not brutes,
as we have been represented, and by millions treated.

If you can only get courage into the blacks, I do declare it, that one good black
man can put to death six white men; and I give it as a fact, let twelve black men get
well armed for battle, and they will kill and put to flight fifty whites. The reason is,
the blacks, once you get them started, they glory in death.