David Walker (abolitionist) vs. Abraham Lincoln
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
David Walker (abolitionist)
1796 – 1830
David Walker was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, with the assistance of the African Grand Lodge, he published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, a call for black unity and a fight against slavery, which James T.
"Some of our brethren are so very full of learning, that you cannot mention any thing to them which they do not know better than yourself!!— nothing is strange t…"
Abraham Lincoln
1744 – 1786
Abraham Lincoln (1809) was the 16th President of the United States, who led the nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and s…"
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