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

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments First, I have been blessed with a loving, supportive family for whom I am constantly thankful—John, Enid, Malcolm, Youlanda, Monica, Chandler Elise, and an amazing host of others. I also appreciate colleagues who suggested sites of rhetorical education and pointed me in the right direction. I benefited greatly from the advice of two persistent anonymous reviewers. There are few services to the profession more valuable than a close critical reading of a work in progress, and I thank them. My work on this project was supported by the Department of English and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, as well as by fellowships from the American Association of University Women and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I also thank the editorial staff at SIU Press for guiding me through this process again. xi Liberating Language ...