In September 1829 Walker first published his famous Only as Emily, most likely a fugitive slave herself. Slaves, he earned a reputation within Boston's black community for Active in helping the poor and needy, including runaway Traveled extensively around the country and by 1827 had settled inīoston, where he established a profitable secondhand clothingīusiness. Must encounter the insults of their hypocritical enslavers." He Remain where I must hear slaves' chains continually and where I He left the South, stating that "If I remain in thisīloody land, I will not live long. . . . In a slave society and developed a strong hatred of the Despite hisįree status inherited from his mother, he grew up stifled by life Mother and a slave father who died before his birth. Incendiary antislavery pamphlet, was born in Wilmington to a free Copyright (c) 1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press.
Source: From DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY edited by William S.
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