David Walker : the politics of racial egalitarianism / Sherrow O. Pinder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinder, Sherrow O., author.

Series:

Black lives series

Black lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, David, 1785-1830.

Walker, David.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Racism against Black people.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

274 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Politics of racial egalitarianism.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken : Polity Press, 2024.

Summary:

David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted his life to fighting slavery and antiblack racism. In this book, Sherrow O. Pinder brings to light Walker's lived experience, activism, and the synchronizing of his Christian principles and reformist radicalism to demonstrate why and how slavery must be eliminated. Walker's call for blacks to regain their natural rights culminated in his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, an enormously influential work that is now considered a founding text of black studies. Today, given the escalation of antiblack racism manifested in the upholding of institutionalized violence by the state and the continued marginality of African-Americans, we cannot afford to forget Walker's push for racial egalitarianism: it is more urgent than ever.

Contents:

Introduction

Envisioning David Walker's life in the South

David Walker moves from the South to the North

David Walker's reproof of Black's unequal treatment and how to promote racial equality

David Walker's fearless speach inthe Appeal and it's aftermath

Conclusion: the usefulness of David Walker's thought for an analysis of antiblack racism today

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-261) and index.

ISBN:

9781509548262

1509548262

9781509548279

1509548270

OCLC:

1389608929