David Walker’s sediments on white Americans in his writing Appeal were extreme. He considered white Americans to be an unjust, blood- thirsty people that are unmerciful –true barbarians. David Walker believed that white Americans treat their African slaves worse than any other people have ever been treated. Some of his examples of this oppression were: A black man’s home could have been feasibly taken by a white man at any time, and no political office was held by a black man at the time –not even the most menial. He exemplified the backwardness of the white man’s concept of barbarism by pointing out that the white American is the true barbarian

We may ask why would a relatively unknown African writer in America rise up in argument against the former president, according to Walker –to inspire, to bring out the existing intellectual talents of the Africans in America. Maybe seen as idealistic and over-optimistic during his time, we can see now that David Walker was a man who truly held real vision for his future.

There existed an irony of religious ideals that David Walker perceived among the whites. He challenged the notion that Christianity called for peace yet caused much war and degradation; He argued that Spanish conquest brought about death and degradation in the name of God. David Walker saw God as a just God, as did the white Christians of America, though he found another irony in Christian perception of justice: the granting of peace to the tyrants (white oppressors and rulers) and wretchedness to the oppressed (black slaves).

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