Walker’s Appeal requires servants to rebel versus their masters as the ways of reacquiring their humankind. Although the Appeal is directed to black servants, its effective moral message and indictment of white America’s hypocritical society and oppressive, ruthless system of slavery is an ethical message that resonates to all audiences, including whites. Prior to David Walker’s Attract the Colored People of the World during the 1800’s, there had not been any other type of anti-slavery documents released.
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