David Walker's Appeal Analysis

The existence of slavery since the colonization of the Americas had taken its toll during the nineteenth century. During the 1800s, the abolitionist movement became essential because these abolitionists would basically demand the abolition of slavery, which mainly existed in the South. David Walker became active in this movement to end slavery because as part African himself, he realized that whites did not have the right to treat bonded Africans as inferior. Out of his ambition to project the injustice and inhumanity of slavery, Walker’s Appeal was created in 1829. In his appeal, Walker’s central theme was that the slaves and others needed to unite and rebel against their masters and white supremacy in order to achieve freedom. He emphasizes his main …show more content…
According to Walker, his main point was “to awaken in the breasts of [his] afflicted, degraded and slumbering brethren, a spirit of inquiry and investigation respecting our miseries and wretchedness in this Republican Land of Liberty!!!” Evidently, he emphasizes his main point not only by directly stating what it was, but also by stressing the phrase “Republican Land of Liberty.” Through that phrase he intended to accentuate that slaves and free blacks should be able to discern that if they suffer greatly in this supposed country of the free, then the country they live in does not hold up to its basis as a country. This would make they realize that as the people who are the main workforce in country where all its people should be free, then they should be liberated from the chains of their masters. No person in the land of the free should be dehumanized and be treated as inferior because then the country is not truly a haven where anybody can achieve liberty. Thus, slaves and free blacks that would read Walker’s Appeal would now be conscious that they deserve the right to be free in a land where everyone is meant to be