Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States by Laura L. Mielke

Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

Laura L. Mielke

296 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of widespread destruction. Prov...

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