"Our divine Lord and Master said, “all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.” But an American minister, with the Bible in is hand, holds us and our children in the most abject slavery and wretchedness. Now I ask them, would they like for us to hold them and their children in abject slavery and wretchedness?"
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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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