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Engraved frontispiece from David Walker's Appeal, showing an enslaved man on a mountaintop reaching toward the words 'libertas justitia.'
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David Walker’s Appeal at 197: The Pamphlet So Dangerous the South Criminalized It

One hundred ninety-seven years ago today, a free Black clothing dealer in Boston published a pamphlet so dangerous that the…