Servants, masters, and the coercion of labor : inventing the rhetoric of slavery, the verbal sanctuaries which sustain it, and how it was used to sanitize American slavery's history /
O'Rourke, David K.,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.
Method, Rhetoric, and Verbal Sanctuaries -- Masters and Servants : Whence the Words? -- Retro-writing History -- In Praise of Modern Mastery, and its Invention -- The Root of our Slavery Rhetoric: rhetoric voices popular sentiment. Rhetoric takes common speech and raises it to a public art -- The Arrogant Rhetoric of Repression -- The Mapping of Colonial Rhetoric -- Colonial Rhetoric and the Grand Utopian Vision -- The Coffle March.
Slavery
Plantation life
Forced labor
Master and servant
Slaveholders
Rhetoric
Rhetoric
Social values
Slavery