What outspoken abolitionist and author of "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" was also the father of one of the first black men to pass the Massachusetts bar?
David Walker (abolitionist) David Walker (September 28, 1796August 6, 1830) was an outspoken African-American abolitionist, writer and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was a slave, his mother was free so therefore he was free. In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, he published "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World", a call for black unity and self-help in the fight against oppression and injustice.
Henry Wilkins Chandler Henry Wilkins Chandler (September 22, 1852 - 1938) was an American lawyer, politician, and abolitionist. Born as a freeman, he was the first African American graduate from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He was a member of a class in which two-thirds of them were former slaves, and was personally recruited by the college's founder, Oren Burbank Cheney.