"[I promise]...to demonstrate in the course of...my Appeal...that we Coloured People of these United States, are, the most wretc
hed, degraded and abject set of beings that ever lived since the world began, down to the present day, and that the white Christians of America, who hold us in slavery, (or, more properly speaking, pretenders to Christianity,) treat us more cruel and barbarous than any Heathen nation did any people whom it had subjected, or reduced to the same condition....I advance it therefore to you...as an unshaken and forever immoveable fact, that your full glory and happiness, as well as all other coloured people under Heaven, shall never be fully consummated, but with the entire emancipation of your enslaved brethren all over the world."David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829David Walker, Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, To the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America Written in Boston, State of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829 (Boston: Revised and Published by David Walker, 1830).The arguments in the excerpt above are best understood in the context ofA) the emergence of African American abolitionist movements.Feedback: David Walker's arguments above exemplify the emergence of African American abolitionist movements in the early 19th century. Walker argued in the excerpt that blacks were whites' equals, that Christianity and slavery were incompatible, and that human salvation required emancipation.B) sectional tensions over the institution of slavery.C) continued restrictions on African American citizenship in Northern states.D) the growth of the internal slave trade in the United States.
