First published in 1829, Walker\'s Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves.
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The resulting stricter laws led to more policies that repressed African Americans, freed and slave alike.
In 1830, members of North Carolina\'s General Assembly had the Appeal in mind as they tightened the state\'s laws dealing with slaves and free black citizens.
Copies of the pamphlet were smuggled by ship in 1830 from Boston to Wilmington, North Carolina, Walker\'s childhood home, causing panic among whites.
He advises them not to trifle if they do rise up, but rather to kill Those who would continue to enslave them and their wives and children.
Walker asks the slaves among his readers whether they wouldn\'t prefer to be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant.
Addressed to the whole World but directed primarily to people of color around the world, the 87-page pamphlet by a free black man born in North Carolina and living in Boston advocates immediate emancipation and slave rebellion.
The two subsequent versions of his document (including the reprinted 1830 edition published shortly before Walker\'s death) were increasingly radical.
First published in 1829, Walker\'s Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves
