Grade 10
One Of The Most Dangerous Men In American History
David Walker, a free Black man in the 19th century, stitched a pamphlet titled “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World” into the lining of a sailor’s coat and smuggled it throughout the United States. The pamphlet, which advocated for the liberation of enslaved Black Americans and connected American abolitionism with global movements for Black liberation, was considered one of the most dangerous documents in American history and inspired future leaders in the Black resistance movement.
