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David Walker Declaration Of Independence

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The Declaration of Independence is arguably one of the most important documents in the history of the United States of America. It was ratified on July 4th, 1776 and that day has become a nation holiday to celebrate the independence from Great Britain. The main author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson who is also known as one of the most important people in United States History. For a lot of people, the Declaration of Independence is the foundation for liberty. A normal definition for liberty is “the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority”. The declaration of Independence differs from that by saying that all men are equal and that if the government doesn’t treat people …show more content…

David Walker was an African American who was born free due to his mother who was also free. In this excerpt from his Appeal, Walker is outraged at how people are being treated. The slaves were the ones doing all the work in America at this time. Walker says that the ownership of the land should be the slaves, the people who worked on it, not the people who are controlling them. It is apparent from Walker's appeal that David Walker has nothing against the Declaration of Independence or what it stands for. What he is against is how the whites are not applying their own rules, by which they justified their independence from Britain, to the slaves. Walker even quotes the Declaration of Independence and is in complete outrage how the Americans are not following their own laws. It doesn’t make sense that the Americans used this document to justify independence, then turn around and do things to these people that is considerably worse. Walker even questions the severity of the suffering the colonists had while under Great Britain compared to what they were doing to the slaves. All the other authors have similar ideas to Walkers and William Lloyd Garrison even quotes the Declaration of Independence just like David Walker did. The one thing that was different about Walkers ideas, was that black people built the country. This view is not shared by the others …show more content…

He, like Sarah Grimké, saw liberty as something that was god given contrary to Garrison and Walker seeing it as a man made right. Brown thought that it was his job to free slaves of slavery by transporting slaves through the country. He also believes that he should not suffer the penalty that was given to him by the court at which he made his Last Speech. In his mind, since liberty was god given, then he was only following the law of God by freeing the slaves. He died believing in his cause for liberty because the world he was in was

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