y and give himself freedom however small a piece of it was.Some material disseminated during the period of slavery, were not held in the highest regard in that they were considered rebellious, almost blasphemous in nature, and an incitement to overthrowing the system according to southern "Christians" of the time.David Walker's Appeal was one such piece. In the Appeal Walker called for an outright abandonment of the system and violence by any means necessary in order to ascertain one's freedom. He utilizes many metaphors and comparisons of Christianity to develop his debate. He criticizes the irony of slavery and their professed Christian masters in that slavery is inherently against the teachings of the Bible.Walker asks the people to actively rise up against the tyranny of slavery and their white oppressors. In his description of the plight of the black slaves, frequently uses religious rhetoric and history to make comparison to the injustice that slavery presents to the entire American civilization. In comparing the situation of the Israelites under the Egyptians he states, "the condition of the Israelites was better than ours under the whites"(10). By this Walker asserts that the Egyptians did not tear apart the Israelites' families, nor did they ever tell them that they were not of the human race, which is a fact that whites interjected under the slavery system. The author also shows the barbarous nature and irony of the whites in implementing this system through a passage regarding a newspaper clipping that he read in the past. In this article the whites decry the barbarity of the Turks in enslaving the Greek people, treating them as if they were animals rather than human beings, yet in contrast there is an ad for the selling of slaves and their physical descriptions, as if they were animals in the same paper. The lack of conscientiousness in regards to the wounds and suffering white America was inflicting upon black Amer...
