Name: Mr. David Walker

Place: Wilmington, North Carolina & Boston, Massachusetts

Time: 1785 - 1830 A.D.

Mr. David Walker was born in 1785, a free man in Wilmington, North Carolina. As a young man he traveled the deep south to execute an intellectual study of the mental and physical destruction of enslaved blacks. After he seen enough, Mr. Walker moved up north to Boston, Massachusetts and established a clothing business to maintain his sustenance while he created his document to direct the mental and physical reconstruction of his brothers and sisters in slavery. He titled his work David Walker's Appeal To the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America. In his Appeal, Mr. Walker exposed Thomas Jefferson's ignorant claims of African inferiority as expressed in Notes on the State of Virginia. Mr. Walker's Appeal To the Coloured Citizens challenged state laws prohibiting blacks to read and write, exposed how slave masters used religion as a control mechanism, proclaimed America belonged to blacks the same as whites, provided significant historical facts about Africans' contributions to world civilization and ultimately urged enslaved blacks to die fighting for their freedom rather than continue living enslaved. Mr. Walker is another example of a free pre-Emancipation Proclamation black man whose existence must totally eradicate false concepts of black people who lived prior to1863.