Peculiar rhetoric : slavery, freedom, and the African colonization movement /

"The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stillion Southard, Bjørn F. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Series:	Race, rhetoric, and media series.
Subjects:	Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views. Clay, Henry, > 1777-1852 > Political and social views. Caldwell, Elias Boudinot, > 1776-1825 > Political and social views. Sheridan, Louis > Political and social views. Teage, Hilary > Political and social views. American Colonization Society > History > 19th century. 1800-1899 African Americans > Colonization > Liberia > 19th century. Free Black people > America > History > 19th century. Slavery > United States > History > 19th century. Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century. History.
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Peculiar argumentation: Henry Clay, Elias B. Caldwell, and the establishment of colonization's deliberative discourse
Chapter 2: Peculiar voice: the counter memorial of the free people of colour of the District of Columbia and the unsettling of colonization's deliberative discourse
Chapter 3: Peculiar planning: Louis Sheridan and the negotiation of diasporic and deliberative discourse
Chapter 4: Peculiar obligations: Hilary Teage and the constitution of civic identity in Liberia
Chapter 5: Peculiar proposal: Abraham Lincoln and the public policy advocacy for colonization
Chapter 6: Conclusion: middle passages, emigration, and peculiar legacies.

Peculiar rhetoric : slavery, freedom, and the African colonization movement /

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