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

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

An 1829 radical resistance publication by David Walker that rejected emigration, countered Thomas Jefferson's arguments about African American inferiority, and asserted that God would punish the United States if it did not free the enslaved.

AP course connection

Topic 2.19: 2.19 Black Political Thought: Radical Resistance

Unit 2

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