Kwaku Walker Lewis[1] (August 3, 1798 – October 26, 1856), was an early African-American abolitionist, Freemason, and Mormon elder from Massachusetts.

The Lewis family moved to Lowell, where the Industrial Revolution of textile mills brought economic prosperity to the area.

Lewis and many of his siblings and their families were actively involved in the abolition and equal rights movement throughout Massachusetts and the Northeast.

In 1829, the MGCA helped David Walker (no relation) to publish the radical, 76-page Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, which demanded unconditional and immediate emancipation of all slaves in the USA.

Lewis arranged for the Boston printer who published the Articles for the African Grand Lodge, to print the controversial Appeal.

On September 18, 1846, Enoch married a white Mormon woman, Mary Matilda Webster, in Cambridge.

[8] After settling in the Salt Lake Valley in 1848, Brigham Young announced a ban that prohibited all men of black African descent from holding the priesthood.

[11] Walker Lewis migrated to Utah to be with the main body of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

[12] He asked Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a black Mormon from Connecticut, to marry him as his polygamous wife, but she declined.

Two months after Walker's arrival, Brigham Young lobbied for, and the Utah Territorial Legislature (composed only of high-ranking Mormon leaders) passed, the Act in Relation to Service.

His daughter-in-law Mary Matilda Webster Lewis subsequently died from "exhaustion" just after Christmas 1852 in the State Hospital at Worcester.