Walker, David. “An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.”

The full title is: “Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with A Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but In Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America.” According to Frederick Douglass, the 76-page [90-Roses] pamphlet, “Startled the land like a trumpet of coming judgment.” Three editions, each more militant than the one before, are published, and Walker ships copies to the South, concealed in barrels of clothing purchased for enslaved people. The pamphlet prompts one Southern governor to call on Mayor Josiah Quincy to ban its publication and another to offer a $10,000 reward for Walker’s capture – $1,000 if dead.