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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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019] |
| Series: | Race, rhetoric, and media series.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
| Summary: | "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 of freedom, but not within America's borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard indicates how politics and identity were negotiated amid the intense public debate on race, slavery, and freedom in America. Operating from a position of power, white advocates argued that colonization was worthy of massive support from the federal government. Stillion Southard pores over the speeches of Henry Clay, Elias B. Caldwell, and Abraham Lincoln, which engaged with colonization during its active deliberation. Between Clay's and Caldwell's speeches at the founding of the American Colonization Society (ACS) in 1816 and Lincoln's final public effort to encourage colonization in 1862, Stillion Southard analyzes the little-known speeches and writings of free blacks who wrestled with colonization's conditional promises of freedom. He examines an array of discourses to probe the complex issues of identity confronting free blacks who attempted to meaningfully engage in colonization efforts. From a peculiarly voiced "Counter Memorial" against the ACS to the letters of wealthy black merchant Louis Sheridan negotiating for his passage to Liberia to the civically minded orations of Hilary Teage in Liberia, Stillion Southard brings to light the intricate rhetoric of blacks who addressed colonization to Africa."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "First printing 2019." Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2019). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 172 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1496823702 1496823710 1496823729 1496823737 9781496823700 9781496823717 9781496823724 9781496823731 |