"Americans, ... have you not, ... entered among us, and learnt us the art of throatcutting, by setting us to fight, one against another, to take each other as prisoners of war, and sell to you for small bits of calicoes, old swords, knives, &c. to make slaves for you and your children? This being done, have you not brought us among you, in chains and hand-cuffs, like brutes, and treated us with all the cruelties and rigour your ingenuity could invent?"
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David Walker (abolitionist)
David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist.
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