Carolina QuotesFor colored people to acquire learning in this country, makes tyrants quake and tremble on their sandy foundation. Why, what is the matter? Why, they know that their infernal deeds of cruelty will be made known to the world.
David Walker Carolinian
Source
p. 37
- work
- Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1830)
- year
- 1830
- locator
- p. 37
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