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Walker is born to a free mother and a slave father, who died before his birth.
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Walker opens a second-hand clothing business that creates a decent profit.
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Walker is a key agent in Freedom's Journal, a publication of which he rallied vital support.
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Walker marries a woman known only by the name Emily, who was likely a fugitive slave.
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Copies discovered in Georgia within weeks of initial publishing. Within months, copies were found from Virginia to Louisiana.
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The controversial nature of Walker's Appeal forced its circulation "underground" to be distributed by sailors, slaves, free blacks, etc.
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Each new publication became more aggressive and outspoken.
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The exact cause of his death is unknown, but it is widely believed that he was poisoned for large rewards offered by Southern slaveholders.
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The governor, along with other concerned officials, urged legislature to act before their predictions came true
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The movement of both free and enslaved blacks is closely watched. Because David Walker was free, officials became paranoid of other free blacks.
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Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison believes that the Appeal is far too violent and does not reflect well on African Americans.
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Edgar Walker is David's only child. Like his father before him, David Walker never had the chance to meet his son.
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Nat Turner gathered a few blacks, which eventually turned into a few dozen, and killed every white person they came upon.
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The text is reprinted with a biography of David Walker by a black newspaper editor/minister/Abolitionist by the name of Henry Highland Grant.
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He becomes the first black elected to the Massachusetts State legislature.
