Walker’s view in the Slave Country David Walker was born in North Carolina to a free mother and an enslaved father, which made him a free coloured man. Being able to have the privileged life of being free and not having the burden of being a slave that he is able eloquently to write what he has seen from travelling to most parts of America. In Walker’s appeal, it gives historical proof of how horrible coloured people were treated and how oppressed they were in that time where they did not have any sort of right. Walker’s appeal holds historical accuracy to Rothman’s book Slave Country, the time period and historical facts entwine with both the book and the document. This shows that
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David Walker’s appeal fits in the historical problem that is being discussed in Rothman’s book Slave Country. The historical accuracy in Slave Country fits with what Walker wrote in his appeal, such as the mention of Jefferson and his desire for “peace” with having more militia (Rothman, 39). In Rothman’s book, he seems to paint Jefferson in a lighter tone than in Walker’s appeal where he declares “Has Mr. Jefferson declared to the world, that we are inferior to the whites, both in the endowments of our bodies and our minds?” (Walker, 4) Walker makes it very obvious how Jefferson has decided they were ranked. According to Jefferson, they are not at the same level as the whites, and that they are superior. In Rothman’s book, in the beginning of chapter 2, that Jefferson had the idea with Briggs to give land to new coming settlers, this shows a more compassionate side, but judging from both works, it seems Jefferson is more favourable to the whites than coloured people. On page 5 in Walker’s appeal, he mentions that coloured people have the same capacity to b able to contribute to society in the same way that the whites do. The quote “there are some talents and learning among the coloured people of this country, which we have not a chance to develop, in consequence of oppression” shows that because of their rank that society has put them in, they have no way of expanding any of
David Walker’s appeal fits in the historical problem that is being discussed in Rothman’s book Slave Country. The historical accuracy in Slave Country fits with what Walker wrote in his appeal, such as the mention of Jefferson and his desire for “peace” with having more militia (Rothman, 39). In Rothman’s book, he seems to paint Jefferson in a lighter tone than in Walker’s appeal where he declares “Has Mr. Jefferson declared to the world, that we are inferior to the whites, both in the endowments of our bodies and our minds?” (Walker, 4) Walker makes it very obvious how Jefferson has decided they were ranked. According to Jefferson, they are not at the same level as the whites, and that they are superior. In Rothman’s book, in the beginning of chapter 2, that Jefferson had the idea with Briggs to give land to new coming settlers, this shows a more compassionate side, but judging from both works, it seems Jefferson is more favourable to the whites than coloured people. On page 5 in Walker’s appeal, he mentions that coloured people have the same capacity to b able to contribute to society in the same way that the whites do. The quote “there are some talents and learning among the coloured people of this country, which we have not a chance to develop, in consequence of oppression” shows that because of their rank that society has put them in, they have no way of expanding any of