Transcript text: David Walker was a free black man born in North Carolina who moved to Boston, where he became a successful business man and published The Appeal ... in 1829. In the pamphlet, Walker advocated:
ending slavery gradually, through compensation to owners.
the immediate abolition of slavery.
the migration of slaves out of the Deep South and into the Upper South, where conditions were more humane.
the reopening of the slave trade, which, he argued, would increase the number of Africans in America and ultimately weaken slavery.