Record ID:
35587477 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 90613451
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1785?
  • Wilmington (N.C.)
Death:
  • 1830-08-06
  • Boston (Mass.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Occupations:
  • Businesspeople Pamphleteers Abolitionists
Notes:
  • nuc89-10424: His Walker's appeal [MI] 1848 (hdg. on CtY rept.: Walker, David, 1785-1830)
  • LC data base, 02-22-90 (hdg.: Walker, David, 1785-1830; usage: David Walker)
  • God and human responsibility, c2003: CIP t.p. (David Walker) galley (Until recently most scholars of black history accepted Henry Highland Garnet's claim, made in 1848, that David Walker was born in 1785. Garnet made this statement in A Brief Sketch of the Life and Character of David Walker. A contemporary historian, however, argues against the traditional dating, arguing it is more likely that Walker was born in 1796 or 1797)
  • African American National Biography, accessed September 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Walker, David; abolitionist, entrepreneur, pamphleteer; born c.1796 in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States; settled in Boston, Massachusetts and opened a used-clothing store (1825); initiated into Prince Hall Masonry at African Lodge No. 459, North America's first black Masonic lodge (1826), which gave him immediate access to most of black Boston's prominent men, and he soon became a leading political force in the community; affiliated with a local black Methodist congregation; championed the United States' first black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, and was its principal agent in Boston (1827); played a key role in creating the Massachusetts General Colored Association (1828); died 06 August 1830 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
Local system number:
  • 000000590942
  • abv00487663
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC DHU-MS IEN