Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America

Author Bio

Shirley Wilson Logan is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she teaches courses in the history and practice of rhetoric and composition with an emphasis on nineteenth-century African American texts. Her publications include With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of NineteenthCentury African-American Women (1995), “We Are Coming”: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women (1999), and essays in various collections. ...