David Walker’s Appeal

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views on things that ranged from the structure of the government to his economic process. It basically draws the reader in and enthralls him/her into a admiration for this man. This man, for the historians who wrote the textbook, was to be looked at as one of the founding fathers of the country for the great things that he accomplished, not for his unbridled hatred and cruelty to the African American race.
The thing that the textbook so eloquently leaves out, though, is Jefferson’s views upon slavery. Jefferson did not only own slaves, but had relations with them. He stated that all men were created equal, but in some way was able to allow himself to believe that people of color were not men. He allowed himself to believe not only that they were below whites, but below the human race as a whole. He stated that they were somewhere in between humans and apes. It strikes me as amazing that he could make such a statement and then back it up by making laws to protect the whites ...

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