David Walker (abolitionist)

David Walker was an outspoken AfricanAmerican abolitionist and antislavery activist. His mother was free and his father was a slave. Therefore, he was free. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, a call for black unity and selfhelp in the fight against oppression and injustice.

Walker was born in the Cape Fear area of North Carolina. His mother was free and his father, who had died before his birth, had been enslaved. Since American law embraced the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, literally that which is brought forth follows the womb, Walker inherited his mothers status as a free person.

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