Liberating language
Subtitle: sites of rhetorical education in nineteenth century black America
By: Shirley Wilson Logan.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780809328727
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "By the way, how did you learn to speak?"; title: Free-floating literacy: early African American rhetorical traditions; title: Private learners: self-education in rhetoric; title: Mental feasts: literary and educational societies and lyceums; title: Organs of propaganda: rhetorical education and the black press.