Slavery and Abolition of Slavery:
Selected Sources
| Primary Texts | |
| Chesebrough, David B. | Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery. Great American Orators 26. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1998. |
| ---. | Theodore Parker: Orator of Superior Ideas. Great American Orators 29. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1999. |
| Documents on Slavery. The Avalon Project. Yale Law School. 9/7/99. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/slavery.htm. | |
| Fitch, Suzanne Pullon, and Roseann M. Mandziuk. | Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song. Great American Orators 25. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1997. |
| Nelson, Truman, ed. | Documents of Upheaval: Selections from William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator. New York: Hill & Wang, 1966. |
| Towns, W. Stuart, ed. | Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. |
| Secondary Sources in History, Rhetoric and Communication | |
| Adeleke, Tunde. | "Afro-Americans and Moral Suasion: the Debate in the 1830's." Journal of Negro History 83 (1998): 127-. |
| Arkin, Marc M. | "The Federalist Trope: Power and Passion in Abolitionist Rhetoric." Journal of American History 88 (2001): 75-98. |
| Bacon, Jacqueline. | The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. Greenville: U of South Carolina P, 2002. |
| Bass, Jeff D. | "An Efficient Humanitarianism: The British Slave Trade Debates, 1791-1792." Quarterly Journal of Speech 75 (1989): 152-165. |
| Bormann, Earnest G. | Forerunners of Black Power: The Rhetoric of Abolition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971. |
| ---. | "Some Random Thoughts on the Unity or Diversity of the Rhetoric of Abolition." Southern Communication Journal 60 (1995): 266-274. |
| Browne, Stephen H. | Angelina Grimke: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1999 |
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"Encountering Angelina Grimke: Violence, Identity, and the Creation of Radical Community." Quarterly Journal of Speech 82 (1996): 38–54. |
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"‘Like Gory Spectres’: Representing Evil in Theodore Weld’s American Slavery As It Is." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (1994): 277–292. |
| ---. | "Textual Style and Radical Critique in William Lloyd Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization. Communication Studies 47 (1996): 177-190. |
| ---. | "'This Unparalleled and Inhuman Massacre': The Gothic, the Sacred, and the Meaning of Nat Turner." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 3 (200): 309- . |
| Burkholder, Thomas R. | "Symbolic Martydom: The Ultimate Apology." Southern Communication Journal 56 (1990): 289-297. |
| Carmack, Paul A. | "The Lane Seminary Debates." Central States Speech Journal 1 (1950): 33-39 |
| Chesebrough, David B. | Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery. Great American Orators 26. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1998. |
| ---. | Theodore Parker: Orator of Superior Ideas. Great American Orators 29. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1999. |
| Clark, Elizabeth B. | "'The
Sacred Rights of the Weak': Pain, Sympathy, and the Culture of Individual
Rights in Antebellum America." Journal of American History 82 (1995): 463-493. |
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Condit, Celeste Michelle, and John Louis Lucaites |
"The Rhetoric of Equality and the Expatriation of African-Americans, 1776–1826." Communication Studies 42 (1991): 1–21. |
| Curtis, Christopher. | "Can These Be the Sons of Their Fathers?" The Defense of Slavery in Virginia, 1831-1832. M.A. Thesis. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997. 10 Oct 2002. <http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-4744152149731401/> |
| Daly, John Patrick. | When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 2002. |
| Dick, Robert C. | "Negro
Oratory in the Anti-Slavery Societies: 1830-1860." Western Speech
28 (1964): 5-14 |
| diGiacomantonio, William C. | "For
the Gratification of a Volunteering Society": Antislavery and Pressure
Group Politics in the First Federal Congress." Journal of the Early Republic 15 (1995): 169-197. |
| Dill, R. Pepper. | "An Analysis of Stasis in James H. Thornwell's Sermon, The Rights and Duties of Masters." Journal of Communication and Religion 11 (1988): 19-24. |
| Ericson, David F. | The Debate over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America. New York: New York UP, 2000. |
| Fanuzzi, Robert. | "The Trouble with Douglass's Body." American Transcendental Quarterly 13 (1999): 27-. |
| Ferreira, Patricia. | "All But 'a Black Skin and Wooly Hair': Frederick Douglass's Witness of the Irish Famine." American Studies International 37 (1999): 69. |
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Finkelman, Paul, ed.. |
Slavery and the Law. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1997. |
| Fitch, Suzanne Pullon, and Roseann M. Mandziuk. | Sojourner Truth as Orator: Wit, Story, and Song. Great American Orators 25. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1997. |
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Fulkerson, Gerald. |
"Frederick Douglass and the Kansas-Nebraska Act: A Case Study in Agitational Versatility." Central States Speech Journal 23 (1972): 261–269. |
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"Exile As Emergence: Frederick Douglass in Great Britain, 1845–1847." Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (1974): 69–82. |
| Funk, Albert W. | "Henry David Thoreau's 'Slavery in Massachusetts'." Western Speech 36 (1972): 159-168. |
| Goodman, Paul. | Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998. |
| Hammerback, John C. | "George W. Julian's Antislavery Crusade." Western Speech 37 (1973): 157-165. |
| ---. | "The Rhetoric of a Righteous Reform: George Washington Julian's 1852 Campaign against Slavery." Central States Speech Journal 22 (1971): 85-93. |
| Hartnett, Stephen J. | Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002. |
| Hasian, Marouf. | "Jurisprudence as Performance: John Brown's Enactment of Natural Law at Harper's Ferry." Quarterly Journal of Speech 86 (200): 190-213. |
| Hemmer, Joseph J. | "Robert A. Toombs Speaks for the South." Southern Speech Journal 28 (1963): 251-259. |
| Hillbruner, Anthony. | "Inequality, the Great Chain of Being, and Ante-Bellum Southern Oratory." Southern Speech Journal 25 (1959): 172-189. |
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Japp, Phyllis M. |
"Esther or Isaiah?: The Abolitionist-feminist Rhetoric of Angelina Grimke." Quarterly Journal of Speech 71.3 (1985): 35–348. |
| Jeffrey, Julie Roy. | The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1998. |
| Kraditor, Aileen. | Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850. New York: Pantheon, 1969. |
| Lampe, Gregory P. | Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1998. |
| Lowance, Mason I., and Ellen E. Westbrook. | The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1994. |
| Kennicott, Patrick C. | "Black Persuaders in the Antislavery Movement." Speech Monographs 37 (1970): 15-24. |
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Kerr, Andrea Moore. |
Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992. |
| Kurtz, Jeffrey B. | "Condemning Webster: Judgment and Audience in Emerson's 'Fugitive Slave Law.'" Quarterly Journal of Speech 87 (2001): 278-290. |
| Logue, Cal M. | "Transcending Coercion: The Communicative Strategies of Black Slaves on Antebellum Plantations." Quarterly Journal of Speech 67 (1981): 31-46. |
| Logue, Cal M., and Eugene F. Miller. | "Communicative Interaction and Rhetorical Status in Harriet Ann Jacobs' Slave Narrative." Southern Communication Journal 63 (1998): 182-198. |
| Mailloux, Steven. | "Re-Marking Slave Bodies: Rhetoric as Production and Reception." Philosophy & Rhetoric 35 (2002): 96-119. |
| Mayer, Henry. | All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery. New York: St. Martin's P, 1998. |
| McBride, Dwight A. | Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. New York: New York UP, 2001. |
| McClure, Kevin R. | "Frederick Douglass' Use of Comparison in his Fouth of July Oration: A Textual Criticism. Western Journal of Communication 64 (2000): 425-444. |
| McCormick, L. Ray. | "James Henley Thornwell and the Spirituality of the Church: Foundation for a Proslave Ideology." Journal of Communication and Religion 19 (1996): 59-67. |
| McDorman, Todd F. | "Challenging Constitutional Authority: African American Responses to Scott v. Sandford." Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 (1997): 192-209. |
| McKivigan, John R., ed. | Abolitionism and American Politics and Government. History of the Abolitionist Movement 3. New York: Garland, 1999. |
| ---. | Abolitionism and American Reform. History of the Abolitionist Movement 1. New York: Garland, 1999. |
| ---. | Abolitionism and American Religion. History of the Abolitionist Movement 2. New York: Garland, 1999. |
| ---. | Abolitionism and Issues of Race and Gender. History of the Abolitionist Movement 4. New York: Garland, 1999. |
| McKivigan, John R., and Stanley Harrold, eds. | Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1999. |
| Miller, Keith D., and Kevin Quashie. | "Slave Mutiny as Argument, Argument as Fiction, Fiction as America: The Case of Frederick Douglass's 'The Heroic Slave'." Southern Communication Journal 63 (1998): 199-207. |
| Monsma, John W. | "John Brown: The Two-Edged Sword of Abolition." Central States Speech Journal 13 (1961): 22-29. |
| Morris, Charles E. | "'Our Capital Aversion': Abigail Folsom, Madness, & Radical Antislavery Praxis." Women's Studies in Communication 24 (2001): 62-. |
| Newman, Richard S. | The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2002. |
| Reynolds, Amy. | "William Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Lundy and Criminal libel: The Abolitionists' Plea for Press Freedom. Communication Law and Policy 6 (2001): 577-607. |
| Robertson, Stacy M. | "'A Hard, Cold, Stern Life': Parker Pillsbury and Grassroots Abolitionism, 1840-1865." New England Quarterly 70 (1997): 179-210. |
| Rogers, William B. | "We Are All Together Now": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Prophetic Tradition. New York: Garland, 1995. |
| Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. | Touching Liberty : Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. |
| Sanger, Kerran L. | "Slave Resistance and Rhetorical Self-Definition: Spirituals as a Strategy." Western Journal of Communication 59 (1995): 177-192. |
| Selby, Gary S. | "The Limits of Accommodation: Frederick Douglass and the Garrisonian Abolitionists." Southern Communication Journal 66 (2000): 52-66. |
| ---. | "Mocking the Sacred: Frederick Douglass's 'Slaveholder's Sermon' and the Antebellum Debate over Religion and Slavery." Quarterly Journal of Speech 88 (2002): 326-341. |
| Smith, Arthur L. | "Henry Highland Garnet: Black Revolutionary in Sheep's Vestments." Central States Speech Journal 21 (1970): 93-98. |
| Smith, Ralph R., and Russell R. Windes. | "The Interpretation of Abolitionist Rhetoric: Historiography, Rhetorical Method, and History." Southern Communication Journal 60 (1995): 303-311. |
| Speicher, Anna M. | The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2000. |
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"Symbolic Convergence and Abolitionism: A Terministic Reinterpretation." Southern Communication Journal 59 (1993): 45–59. |
| Stauffer, John. | The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001. |
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Sterling, Dorothy. |
Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Anti-Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. |
| Strong, Douglas M. | Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1999. |
| Sweet, Leonard I. | "The
Fourth of July and Black Americans in the Nineteenth Century: Northern
Leadership Opinion Within the Context of the Black Experience." Journal
of Negro History 61 (1976): 256-275. |
| Terrill, Robert E. | "Irony, Silence and Time: Frederick Douglass on the Fifth of July." Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (2003): 216-234. |
| Towns, Stuart. | Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. |
| Vorenberg, Michael. | Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. |
| Vonnegut, Kristin S. | "Poison or Panacea?: Sarah Moore Grimké's Use of the Public Letter." Communication Studies 46 (1995): 73-88. |
| Wagner, Gerard A. | "Sojourner Truth: God's Appointed Apostle of Reform." Southern Speech Journal 28 (1962): 123-130. |
| Weaver, Richard L. | "The Negro Issue: Agitation in the Michigan Lyceum." Central States Speech Journal 22 (1971): 196-201. |
| Whitby, Gary L. | "Economic Elements of Opposition to Abolition and Support of South by Bennett in New York Herald." Journalism Quarterly 65 (1988): 78-84. |
| ---. | "Horns of a Dilemma: The Sun, Abolition, and the 1833-34 New York Riots." Journalism Quarterly 67 (1990): 410-419. |
| Wiethoff, William. | The Insolent Slave. Greenville: U of South Carolina P, 2002. |
| Zaeske, Susan. | "Signature of Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Women's Antislavery Petitions." Quarterly Journal of Speech 88 (2002): 147-168. |
| Zeitz, Joshua Michael. | "The
Missouri Compromise Reconsidered: Antislavery Rhetoric and the Emergence
of the Free Labor Synthesis." Journal of the Early Republic 20 (2000): 447-449. |