Summary Of Our Wretchedness In Consequence Of Slavery By David Walker

David Walker was a black man that aimed to inspire American blacks to achieve the freedom they deserve. He grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina and his early childhood biography has little detail. His dad was a slave and his mother was free. His date of birth was estimated to be around 1797. In North Carolina, the blacks greatly outnumbered the whites. Although there were more blacks, they only had a small amount of them that were free. Walker’s childhood definitely had a great impact on his mindsight to feel the need to speak up for the blacks. Wilmington taught him a lot about how slaves were treated poorly and the history of their suffering. Also, there were certain things happening in Charleston that led him to the rebellion. Charleston happened to be the center for free blacks that had major goals. These ambitious blacks started many foundations as a group such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Authorities discovered this church and tried to stop it, making the blacks more on-edge. Although these events were eventually put to a rest, it was

This one is about “our wretchedness in consequence of slavery”. I believe this to be most compelling due to the fact that he describes how terrible slavery really is. He gets into extreme detail about how awful the slaves were treated. He talks about how the colored people were the most wretched and degraded beings of the earth and that really caught my eye. The Americans treated their slaves worse than any other country would ever do. They stripped away all of their pride for the good of the whites. The slaves would use their own blood and tears just to work for the white farmers. This article had the most effect by showing the suffering that the colored people had to go through for their whole lives. Walker compares the treatment of the blacks in the U.S. to the Egyptians. He says that the Pharaoh treated his slaves much