The humblest may stand forth

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"Offering an alternative account of the abolitionist movement, The Humblest May Stand Forth analyzes the rhetoric of African Americans and white females involved in the crusade against slavery and examines the particular strategies they chose to advocate despite their positions at the periphery of the movement. Jacqueline Bacon explores how these activists, rather than surrender to a society intent on keeping them quiet, identified and employed rhetorical strategies that would advance their message. Bacon explores the sometimes unconventional methods, organizations, and media they created to fight slavery on their own terms.". "Drawing on such primary sources as letters, editorials, proslavery and antislavery tracts, and domestic manuals, Bacon probes antebellum notions of race and gender and the ways that these conceptions influenced the abolitionists' arguments. She suggests that abolitionists marginalized by race and gender developed a diverse, empowering, and theoretically complex array of rhetorical strategies that must be analyzed on their own terms."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: African American abolitionists,  African American authors,  African American women,  African American women abolitionists,  African American women in literature,  Antislavery movements,  English language,  History,  History and criticism,  Intellectual life,  Political aspects of Rhetoric,  Power (Social sciences),  Rhetoric,  Speeches, addresses, etc., American,  United States,  Women abolitionists,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Abolitionismus,  Politische Rede,  Political aspects,  Speeches, addresses, etc.,  Power (social sciences),  Antislavery movements, united states

Places: United States

Times: 19th century