Tuesday, November
8, 2005
Place: Mills College, Bender
Room in Carnegie Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd. (directions.pdf
)
Oakland, CA
Time: 8:30 AM – 3:30
PM
Lesson
Study groups – preparation
for lesson study
Grade
8 Lesson Study Topic: Abolition
and Union - David Walker’s
“Appeal” of
1829 The “Appeal”
is not only a good read,
the events surrounding its
release also provide an
excellent window on the
different meanings of freedom
in a slaveholding republic.
Walker was a free black
man living in Boston and
making a living peddling
used clothes. Walker penned
“An Appeal to the
Coloured Citizens of the
World,” which was
widely read in the black
community in the North and
was smuggled into the South
sewn into sailors’
jackets, creating panic
among slave owners. The
“Appeal” demanded
the immediate abolition
of slavery, indicted the
United States for violating
the principles of the Declaration
of Independence, and threatened
the violent destruction
of the government of slavery.
