See your Declaration Americans!!! Do you understand your own language?
Claims white Americans are hypocrites, urging them to listen to their own words.
See your Declaration Americans!!! Do you understand your own language?
Claims white Americans are hypocrites, urging them to listen to their own words.
we have enriched it with our blood and tears.
America is built on the backs, blood and tears, of slaves.
David Walker was the son of an enslaved man and a free Black woman.
David Walker was a black man; this is important to note so we understand how his audience viewed him.
I had a Stronger Desire Still to Learn to read the Word of God, and at the Same Time had an uncommon Pity and Compassion to my Poor Brethren According to the Flesh. I used to wish I was capable of Instructing my poor Kindred. I used to think, if I Could once Learn to Read I would Instruct the poor Children in Reading
Ocoom describes a deep sense he has to educate his community on Christianity and literacy as a pathway to Indigenous self-help and survival.
the most savage of all the savages of that kind that I had ever seen
The attitude towards the natives from Sarah.