Title: 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 /
Authors: O'Rourke, David K.,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Slavery Social aspects Southern States History.; Plantation life Southern States History; Forced labor Social aspects Southern States History.; Master and servant Social aspects Southern States History.; Slaveholders Southern States Language History.; Rhetoric Political aspects Southern States History.; Rhetoric Social aspects Southern States History.; Social values Southern States History.; Slavery Southern States Historiography.; Sklaverei; Rhetorik; Etymologie; Legitimation; Herr; Diener.; USA
Contents: Words, Methods, and Contexts -- 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.