Frederick Douglass

Oratory from Slavery

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David B Chesebrough

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Great American Orators,

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Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era. This book traces the development of his rhetorical skills, discusses the effect of his oratory on his contemporaries, and analyzes the specific oratorical techniques he employed. The first part is a biographical sketch of Douglass's life, dealing with his years of slavery (1818-1837), his prewar years of freedom (1837-1861), the Civil War (1861-1865), and postwar years (1865-1895). Chesebrough emphasizes the centrality of oratory to Douglass's life, even during the years in slavery. The second part looks at his oratorical techniques and concludes with three speeches from different periods. Students and scholars of communications, U.S. history, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and African American studies will be interested in this book.

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DAVID B. CHESEBROUGH is Assistant Chair, Graduate Faculty, Department of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of three previous books: God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830-1865 (1991), No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow: Northern Protestant Sermons and the Assassination of Lincoln (1994), and Clergy Dissent in the Old South, 1830-1865 (1996).

Release date Australia

January 26th, 1998

Author

David B Chesebrough

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

200

Series

Great American Orators,

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780313302879

Product ID

7019817

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