Not all Abolitionists of 19th century America were alike.

Having traveled over a considerable portion of these United States, and having, in the course of my travels, taken the most accurate observations of things as they exist -- the result of my observations has warranted the full and unshaken conviction, that we...are the most degraded, wretched, and abject set of beings that ever lived since the world began; and I pray God that none like us ever may live again until time shall …

…leaders. All too often, the concept of slavery is ignored in America or, worse yet, drawn as a picture of compliance. David Walker challenges that view, one taken very seriously by the guilt-stricken white America, and is only in the current days being challenged again. Helmut Kohl, the West German Chancellor, said, on 24 January 1984, that the younger generations "refuse to acknowledge a collective guilt for the deeds of their fathers. We should welcome this development."