Summary Of 1829 By David Walker

David Walker wrote this article in September 28, 1829 and Boston published it in 1830. The article is called Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World 1829.

2.) What problems are confronting the author?

The problems that author David Walker face are the freedom of African Americans. He is disappointed because African Americans do not fight for their freedom nor do they fight for their respect against their masters. He wants to see them fight for their equal rights instead of suffering from free labor and beatings that they did not deserve. He argues that instead of being tied up to a chain and being beaten by his owner he would rather kill all his family and himself then seeing his family being killed slowly. David Walker is a colored

He says that the White think that African Americans want to be them and have their skin color and riches. But he portrays that they think wrong. He says in his appeal that the African Americans do not want to be their color because they know that they could not do the same harm as the whites did as of beating as they slowly die in the inside. He says that they have so much anger towards the white that the first thing that they would do is murder each and every one of them for the suffering that they bought on to their families of their kind. He would like to see them suffer the same way before they would ever become a white person. Throughout his appeal he says that the African Americans come to serve servitude as they are brought or kidnapped to the United States. They come scared because they do not know what is going to happen but as they come into the United States they are welcomed into a hell on Earth. Another point that he fights in his appeal is that African American in 1829 or in that time did not care about their positions in life. Some African Americans were happy in their job duty of just cleaning and shining boots for example. And he