Throw away your fears and prejudices then, and enlighten us and treat us like men, and we will like you more than we do now hate you.... Americans, I declare to you, while you keep us and our children in bondage, and treat us like brutes, to make us support you and your families, we cannot be your friends. You do not look for it, do you? Treat us then like men, and we will be your friends.

David Walker's Appeal (1829)