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

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: “By the Way, Where Did You Learn to Speak?” 1 1. Free-Floating Literacy: Early African American Rhetorical Traditions 10 2. Private Learners: Self-Education in Rhetoric 29 3. Mental Feasts: Literary and Educational Societies and Lyceums 58 4. Organs of Propaganda: Rhetorical Education and the Black Press 96 Notes 137 Bibliography 161 Index 173 ...