Early version of Black Pride brought US a step closer to Juneteenth
June 17, 2024
June 17, 2024
ITHACA, New York, June 17 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
About 30 years before the Civil War, David Walker went viral.
The son of a free mother and an enslaved father, Walker wrote an antislavery pamphlet that spread throughout the South in the pockets of Black sailors and by word of mouth. Literate Black people read it to scores of those who could not.
In three printings from 1829 to 1830, Walker's incendiary "Appeal to the Colored P . . .
About 30 years before the Civil War, David Walker went viral.
The son of a free mother and an enslaved father, Walker wrote an antislavery pamphlet that spread throughout the South in the pockets of Black sailors and by word of mouth. Literate Black people read it to scores of those who could not.
In three printings from 1829 to 1830, Walker's incendiary "Appeal to the Colored P . . .