Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery

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Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 176 pages
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Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era. This book traces the development of his rhetorical skills, discusses the effect of his oratory on his contemporaries, and analyzes the specific oratorical techniques he employed.

The first part is a biographical sketch of Douglass's life, dealing with his years of slavery (1818-1837), his prewar years of freedom (1837-1861), the Civil War (1861-1865), and postwar years (1865-1895). Chesebrough emphasizes the centrality of oratory to Douglass's life, even during the years in slavery. The second part looks at his oratorical techniques and concludes with three speeches from different periods. Students and scholars of communications, U.S. history, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and African American studies will be interested in this book.

 

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About the author (1998)

DAVID B. CHESEBROUGH is Assistant Chair, Graduate Faculty, Department of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of three previous books: God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830-1865 (1991), No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow: Northern Protestant Sermons and the Assassination of Lincoln (1994), and Clergy Dissent in the Old South, 1830-1865 (1996).

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TitleFrederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery
Issue 26 of Great American orators, ISSN 0898-8277
AuthorDavid B. Chesebrough
Editionillustrated
PublisherGreenwood Publishing Group, 1998
ISBN0313302871, 9780313302879
Length176 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Historical
History / United States / 19th Century
Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
  
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