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Author:

Logan, Shirley W. (Shirley Wilson), 1943-

Title:

Liberating language : sites of rhetorical education in nineteenth-century black America / Shirley Wilson Logan.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xi, 181 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English language--History--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--United States--History--19th century.
Literacy--History--United States--History--19th century.
Rhetoric--History--United States--History--19th century.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.

Contents:

"By the way, how did you learn to speak?" -- Free-floating literacy: early African American rhetorical traditions -- Private learners: self-education in rhetoric -- Mental feasts: literary and educational societies and lyceums -- Organs of propaganda: rhetorical education and the black press.

ISBN:

9780809328727 (alk. paper)
0809328720 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008004009

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)