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To awaken my afflicted brethren : David Walker and the problem of antebellum slave resistance
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To awaken my afflicted brethren : David Walker and the problem of antebellum slave resistance

Author: Peter P Hinks
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: David Walker; David (Politiker) Walker
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter P Hinks
ISBN: 0271015780 9780271015781 0271015799 9780271015798
OCLC Number: 34966264
Description: xvii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: "Strange to ever keep in mind" : the world of David Walker --
Born free into slavery : David Walker's early years --
"There is a great work for you to do" : coming of age in Vesey's Charleston --
"Even here in Boston, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch" : Settling down in Massachusetts --
"To make them think and feel, and act, as one sold body" : the Appeal and the Black Reform Movement --
Getting the good word out : circulating Walker's appeal --
History and oratory : the intellectual background of the Appeal --
"I am one of the oppressed, degraded and wretcjed sons of Africa" : and exegesis of the Appeal --
"Why are the Americans so very fearfull terrified respecting my book?" : The Appeal and the problem of Antebellum Black resistance --
Appendixes: Analysis of names on the Charleston AME petition --
Slave and free Black members of the African Church who were associated with the Vesey affair --
David Walker's associates in Boston --
Distribution of occupations in Black Boston, 1826 --
David Walker's death and the history of his family.
Responsibility: Peter P. Hinks.
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