Read the excerpt from David Walker’s *Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World* (1829) and answer the following question.
"America is more our country, than it is the whites—we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears:—and will they drive us from our property and homes, which we have earned with our ashes?"
Which of the following historical debates among Black abolitionists does the excerpt most directly address?
- The debate over whether to seek emigration and colonization abroad or to demand full citizenship rights within the United StatesCevap
- BThe debate over how to implement colonization, based on the assumption that all Black abolitionists agreed that emigration was the only path to freedom
- CThe debate over whether to support armed resistance or to limit the political influence of early Black churches to spiritual matters
- DThe debate over whether to organize public political conventions or to rely primarily on covert plantation-level resistance like tool breaking
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The debate over whether to seek emigration and colonization abroad or to demand full citizenship rights within the United States
The correct answer accurately identifies the debate between colonization/emigration and the claim to U.S. citizenship. In his 1829 Appeal, David Walker strongly rejected the efforts of the American Colonization Society and other colonizationists who proposed that free Black people relocate to Africa. Walker asserted that African Americans had built the United States through their labor ('blood and tears') and were entitled to stay and claim their full rights as citizens.
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Black Abolitionism and Anti-Slavery Activism