Reposted by Ariane Ramaekers
#tdih 9/28 🧵 begins on #tdih 1829 with publication of David Walker’s “An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.”
U.S. gov’t. made distribution illegal, so it was “sewn into linings of clothes . . . smuggled ashore from ships when they docked in port.”
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Sept. 28, 1829: An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
David Walker published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, one of the most important documents of the 19th century.
