Volume 50, Number 11 · July 3, 2003
A Lost World
By Darryl Pinckney
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
by Elizabeth McHenry
Duke University Press, 423 pp., $59.95; $18.95 (paper)
In 1829, in Boston, David Walker, a free black, published privately his impassioned Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and very Expressly to Those of the United States of America. Intended to prove that blacks were suffering a worse degradation under Christian Americans than the children of Jacob ever had under heathen Pharaoh, Walker's pamphlet, reprinted three times before his sudden death in 1830, was regarded by whites in the North as well as in the South as the most incendiary denunciation of slavery yet to be found in the United States:
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