Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life

Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life
And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

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Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life by David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet

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1848

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Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life
And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

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he WHOLE human family, and will not on any consideration admit of a colleague, being unwilling to divide his glory with another.--And who can dispense with prejudice long enough to admit that we are men, notwithstanding our improminent noses and woolly heads, and believe that we feel for our fathers, mothers, wives and children as well as they do for theirs.--I say, all who are permitted to see and believe these things, can easily recognize the judgments of God among the Spaniards. Though others may lay the cause of the fierceness with which they cut each other's throats, to some other circumstances, yet they who believe that God is a God of justice, will believe that SLAVERY is the principal cause.

While the Spaniards are running about upon the field of battle cutting each other's throats, has not the Lord an afflicted and suffering people in the midst of them whose cries and groans in consequence of oppression are continually pouring into the ears of the God of justice? Would t