David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

Introduction

David Walker's appeal to the colored citizens of the world was written in 1829, by David Walker. Most of the historians now take the appeal as one of the top rated and crucially important political and social document of the nineteenth century. It is different of kinds and nothing is published similar to it in the past. It was considered as a basic guideline for African origin based American peoples for several years even after many years of death of the author. This publication provides a deep insight about the thinking of leaders of black people such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X.

Discussion

Three different versions of the appeal were publically launched in the state of Boston as a publication in 1830. It is divided in to four different parts or articles summing a total of 78 pages on paper.

Frederick Douglas (1818 - 1895) - the most prominent African American leader of the 21st century. He was a satellite, journalist, speaker and educator. In the 21st century, F. Douglas not only “the most-Banner fifth African-American” but after Abraham Lincoln he was the second most famous American in the world, representing a democratic America.

F. Douglas was a key figure in the abolitionist movement in the African American journalism and literature. All the powers of his extraordinarily gifted nature, courage, fortitude, and exceptional publicist, rich life experience has invested F. Douglas fight for the complete liquidation slavery and its consequences. Here are some facts his biography, which became the property of American history. He was born in 1818, in the state of slavery in Maryland. Unbeknownst to the slave owners learned read and write and teach literacy slaves on the plantation. In 1838, he escaped to Massachusetts. He became an active participant in abolitionist movement, and then the black abolitionist leader.

In his biography, and a trip across the North with you crimes (sometimes at the risk of life) against rabstva3 And actively participate in the “Underground Railroad”, and organizing resistance to the law of 1850 he made the organization during the Civil War, the 54th and 55th regiments of the first black regiments black Americans who fought as part of it. F. Douglas has developed a program of the black population in the country political and civil rights, especially the right to elect and be elected as do with white Americans, and consistently fought for its implementation after the liquidation of slavery. He was active in organizing the annual “convention Negro people, “presided over the Congress of Colored People in Syracuse ca- timber 1864 and was the author of the policy document Messages from Congress to the people of United States' point of the Negro people”. He presided over the first Search SR tine National Convention of the Negro people of the United States in 1869.

Spreading the Word

Walker spreads the appeal by using his contacts and friends lying in his area of influence which have been moved towards ...