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Walker, David, 1785-1830

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Personal name headingWalker, David, 1785-1830
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1785?
Death date1830-08-06
Place of birthWilmington (N.C.)
Place of deathBoston (Mass.)
AffiliationMassachusetts General Colored Association
Profession or occupationBusinesspeople Pamphleteers Abolitionists
Found innuc89-10424: His Walker's appeal [MI] 1848 (hdg. on CtY rept.: Walker, David, 1785-1830)
LC data base, 02-22-90 (hdg.: Walker, David, 1785-1830; usage: David Walker)
God and human responsibility, c2003: CIP title page (David Walker) galley (Until recently most scholars of black history accepted Henry Highland Garnet's claim, made in 1848, that David Walker was born in 1785. Garnet made this statement in A Brief Sketch of the Life and Character of David Walker. A contemporary historian, however, argues against the traditional dating, arguing it is more likely that Walker was born in 1796 or 1797)
African American National Biography, accessed September 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Walker, David; abolitionist, entrepreneur, pamphleteer; born c.1796 in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States; settled in Boston, Massachusetts and opened a used-clothing store (1825); initiated into Prince Hall Masonry at African Lodge No. 459, North America's first black Masonic lodge (1826), which gave him immediate access to most of black Boston's prominent men, and he soon became a leading political force in the community; affiliated with a local black Methodist congregation; championed the United States' first black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, and was its principal agent in Boston (1827); played a key role in creating the Massachusetts General Colored Association (1828); died 06 August 1830 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
Wikipedia, Apr. 8, 2022 (David Walker (Sept. 28, 1796 - Aug. 6, 1830) was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist)
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