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- NAME: David Walker
- OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Writer
- BIRTH DATE: September 28, 1785
- DEATH DATE: June 28, 1830
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Wilmington, North Carolina
- PLACE OF DEATH: Boston, Massachusetts
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David Walker was an African American abolitionist whose pamphlet was one of the most radical documents of the antislavery movement.
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Play NowDavid Walker. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 02:47, May 25, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/david-walker-9521982.
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David Walker. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/david-walker-9521982. Accessed May 25, 2013.
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Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on September 28, 1785, David Walker was an African-American abolitionist whose 1829 pamphlet, Appeal...to the Colored Citizens of the World..., urging slaves to fight for their freedom, was one of the most radical documents of the antislavery movement. Appeal, widely reprinted after his death, was accepted by a small minority of abolitionists, but most anti-slavery leaders and free blacks rejected his call for violence at the time. Walker died in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 28, 1830.
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