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20 | David Walker and the Politics of Judgment

What's Left of Philosophy

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David walker was an abolitionist and a writer, born in 17 96. He died in 18 30, about 30 years before the american civil war. His father was enslaved, but his mother was a free black. So walker himself was free, given that the united states followed the law or legal doctrine of latin partus sequitor ventrum (which literally means that which is born follows the womb)

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