David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) was an influential American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Born to a free mother and an enslaved father, he was free himself due to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem. In 1829, while residing in Boston, he published “An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World,” which called for black […]
Sojourner Truth…Is What They Call Her 2
Sojourner Truth They called her Sojourner Truth, but in actuality, her name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, to James and Elizabethan Baumfree. Along with her parents, she spent her life on the Johannesburg estate as a slave. Dutch was her first language since Dutch people enslaved her. Despite everything, when she turned […]