Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 exam•Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Definition
Nineteenth-century Black activist and author of Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829), who advocated radical resistance, rejected emigration to Africa, and asserted that God would punish the United States for slavery.
AP course connection
Topic 2.19: 2.19 Black Political Thought: Radical Resistance