ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The goal of the Appeal was to instill pride in its black readers and give hope that change would someday come. It spoke out against colonization, a popular movement that sought to move free blacks to a colony in Africa. America, Walker believed, belonged to all who helped build it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Walker used his clothing store to spread the message, sewing copies of his pamphlet into the lining of sailors’ clothes. The sailors sympathetic to his cause could then distribute the pamphlets all across the South. Reaction to his Appeal was swift.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1829, he wrote the remarkable Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. In it, he exposed the hypocrisies of American claims of freedom and Christianity, attacked the plan to colonize Black Americans in Africa, and predicted that God’s justice promised violence for the enslaving United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -In September of 1829 he published his Appeal. To reach his primary audience–the enslaved men and women of the South–Walker relied on sailors and ship’s officers sympathetic to the cause who could transfer the pamphlet to southern ports.