The wretchedness of the blacks in consequence of slavery he depicted in dark and bitter language.

Theodore Parker, many years afterward, said that the negro was deficient in vengeance, the lowest form of justice.
"Walker's Appeal" evinced no deficiency in this respect in its author.
The pamphlet found its way South, and was the cause of no little commotion among the master-class.

It was looked upon as an instigation to servile insurrection.

The "Appeal" was proscribed, and a price put upon the head of the author.

Garrison deprecated the sanguinary character of the book.