Carolina Quotes
America is more our country, than it is the whites--we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears
David Walker Carolinian
Source
Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Boston, 1830); Documenting the American South, UNC
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- Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles
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- 1830
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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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