 | Vincent Harding - 1981 - 476 pages
...Wilmington's swamps.27 Near the beginning of the work, Walker proclaimed it one of his major purposes "to awaken in the breasts of my afflicted, degraded...inquiry and investigation respecting our miseries and wretchednesses in this REPUBLICAN LAND OF LIBERTY!!!!!" Essentially, he was demonstrating several of... | |
 | Richard A. Long, Eugenia W. Collier - 2010 - 781 pages
...possible, to awaken in the breasts of my afflicted, degraded and slumhering bretbren, a spirit of enquiry and investigation respecting our miseries and wretchedness in this Republican Land of Liherty!!!!! The sources from which our miseries are derived and on which I shall comment, I shall... | |
 | Wolfgang Binder - 1993 - 666 pages
...revolutionary change of condition for slaves, Walker expresses his "object" in oddly academic terms: "to awaken in the breasts of my afflicted, degraded...investigation respecting our miseries and wretchedness in this Republic Land of Liberty!!!!" (Walker qtd. in H. Aptheker, 63) Clearly Walker is being driven by indignation... | |
 | Abu Shardow Abarry - 1996 - 852 pages
...accusations which may or can be preferred against me, I appeal to Heaven for my motive in writing — who knows that my object is, if possible, to awaken in...them in their turn; in doing which, keeping truth on my side, and not departing from the strictest rules of morality. I shall endeavour to penetrate, search... | |
 | Peter P. Hinks - 2010 - 324 pages
...in writing — who knows that my object is, if possible, to awaken in the breasts of my afllicted, degraded and slumbering brethren, a spirit of inquiry...wretchedness in this Republican Land of Liberty!!!!!? (Appeal. 2). 33. Appeal, preamble, 28. intended to heighten residents' awareness of activities dangerous... | |
 | David Walker - 1993 - 108 pages
...better our condition, for we cannot. I will ask one question here.-Can our condition be any worse?-Can it be more mean and abject? If there are any changes,...them in their turn; in doing which, keeping truth on my side, and not departing from 22 the strictest rules of morality, I shall endeavour to penetrate,... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - 1999 - 554 pages
...to merely chronicle despair, he cajoled, urged, protested, warned, lashed out, reflected, and wailed "to awaken in the breasts of my afflicted, degraded...wretchedness in this Republican Land of Liberty!!!!!!" In his Appeal, Walker insisted that blacks take an unflinching look at both their oppression and their... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...may or can be preferred against me, I appeal to Heaven for my motive in writing — who knows what my object is, if possible, to awaken in the breasts...wretchedness in this Republican Land of Liberty!!!!! . . . I saw a paragraph, a few years since, in a South Carolina paper, which, speaking of the barbarity... | |
 | Peter P. Hinks - 2010 - 196 pages
...accusations which may or can be preferred against me, I appeal to Heaven for my motive in writing — who knows that my object is, if possible, to awaken in...respecting our miseries and wretchedness in this Republican Ijmd of Liberty!!!!!! The sources from which our miseries are derived, and on which I shall comment,... | |
 | Eddie S. Glaude - 2000 - 234 pages
...Heaven for my motive in writing—who knows that my object is, if possible, to awaken in the hearts of my afflicted, degraded and slumbering brethren,...wretchedness in this Republican Land of Liberty!!!" 54 A critical examination of the experiences of African Americans was necessary for articulating an... | |
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... at first? Can they get us any lower? Where can they get us? They are afraid to treat us worse, for they know well, the day they do it they are gone. But against all accusations which may or can be preferred against me, I appeal to Heaven for my motive... 
