"Let no man of us budge one step": David Walker and the Rhetoric of African American Emplacement.

Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular & Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (Book); Walker, David, 1785-1830; African American literature -- History & criticism; Exodus, The, in literature; American Colonization Society; African American history to 1863; Essays; History

A literary criticism of the book "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America" by David Walker is presented. It explores Walker's use of the Biblical story of Exodus and argues that he employed it to undermine the myth of a homogeneously white America and to model African-American resistance and empowerment. Topics discussed include the American Colonization Society, westward expansion, and racial heterogeneity.