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David Walker (September 28, 1796August 6, 1830) was an outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published ''An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World'', a call for black unity and self-help in the fight against oppression and injustice. The work brought attention to the abuses and inequities of slavery and the role of individuals to act responsibly for racial equality, according to religious and political tenets. At the time, some people were outraged and fearful of the reaction that the pamphlet would have. Many abolitionists thought the views were extreme. Historians and liberation theologians cite the ''Appeal'' as an influential political and social document of the 19th century. Walker exerted a radicalizing influence on the abolitionist movements of his day and inspired future black leaders and activists. His son, Edward G. Walker, was an attorney and one of the first two black men elected into the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1866. ==Early life and education== Walker was born in the Cape Fear area of North Carolina. His mother was free and his father, who had died before his birth, had been enslaved. As Walker's mother was free, David was born free. He witnessed the cruelty of slavery in the region and said: "If I remain in this bloody land, I will not live long… I cannot remain where I must hear slaves' chains continually and where I must encounter the insults of their hypocritical enslavers."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/bio.html )〕 As a young adult, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina, a mecca for upwardly mobile free blacks. He became affiliated with a strong African Methodist Episcopal Church community of activists, members of the first black denomination in the United States.〔Hinks, ''To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren'', xx-xxii.〕 He visited and likely lived in Philadelphia, a shipbuilding center and location of an active black community, where the AME Church was founded.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Walker (abolitionist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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