A Call for Revolution
David Walker (1785–1830), who ran a used clothing shop in Boston, spent his hard-earned savings to publish An Appeal … to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829), a learned and passionate attack on racial slavery. Walker depicted Christ as an avenging “God of justice and of armies” and raised the banner of slave rebellion. A year later, a passerby found Walker in the doorway of his shop, dead from unknown causes. Library of Congress.