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An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World  

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  • David Walker, a free black man, published a militant antislavery pamphlet, David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But Particularly and Very Expressly to Those of the United States, which became known as An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World and was distributed widely throughout the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Walker may have been the first black militant to write against the institution of slavery. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KL23J1LZ-5

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