Aggressive antiracist pamphleteering provoked the state to jail its white advocates

Evidence

By then, the South had begun a dogged political and legal battle to suppress the pamphlet. The North Carolina governor called the Appeal “totally subversive of all subordination in our slaves”—a proclamation Walker enjoyed reading. In the midst of (and probably because of) the commotion over Walker’s pamphlet, Baltimore authorities jailed Garrison on April 17, 1830. Garrison did not seem to mind his seven weeks of imprisonment. “A few white victims must be sacrificed to open the eyes of this nation,” he declared upon his release in June, when a wealthy abolitionist paid his fine. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 442

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• XREF: connects to: Advocating racial equality was criminalized as sedition against US white supremacy — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 246