Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State

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ISBN: 9780415997638 | 0415997631
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/3/2010

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This book traces long and prolific career of prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. It explores her radical egalitarian vision in all its rich rhetorical and historic context and establishes the lasting relevance of that vision for civil rights and human rights workers today.

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List of Figures	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction: Frances Harper and Nineteenth-Century African American Rhetorical Pedagogy	p. 1
Composing Character: Cultural Sources of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy	p. 25
Reconstruction and Black Republican Pedagogy	p. 51
Temperance Pedagogy: Lessons of Character in a Drunken Economy	p. 81
Black Ireland: The Political Economics of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy after Reconstruction	p. 106
Not as a Mere Dependent: The Historic Mission of African American Women's Rhetoric at the End of the Century	p. 130
Afterword	p. 160
Appendix: A Selected Chronology of Writing and Oratory	p. 167
Notes	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 195
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State

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