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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456394403321

Autore

Leichtle Kurt E. <1949->

Titolo

Crusade against slavery [[electronic resource] ] : Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom / / Kurt E. Leichtle and Bruce G. Carveth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-336-15363-6

0-8093-8986-X

1-280-69748-2

9786613674449

0-8093-8944-4

9780809389945

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

CCCC studies in writing & rhetoric

Altri autori (Persone)

CarvethBruce G. <1951->

Disciplina

977.3/03092

B

Soggetti

Governors - Illinois

Slavery - Illinois - History

Slaves - Emancipation - Illinois - History

Freedmen - Illinois

African Americans - Illinois

Electronic books.

Illinois Race relations History 19th century

Illinois Politics and government To 1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Dust in the balance" : an introduction -- River and opportunity -- Man of property -- Release -- Beginning -- A rough land of great promise -- Contest and convention -- A prairie firestorm -- The chasm -- The complaint -- The emancipator -- The devastating truth of Madison's will -- The aging historian -- The preacher -- Prodigal Virginian -- The woodlands.

Sommario/riassunto

In Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, Kelly Ritter uses materials from the archives at Harvard and Yale and contemporary theories of writing instruction to reconsider the



definition of basic writing and basic writers within a socio-historical context. Ritter challenges the association of basic writing with only poorly funded institutions and poorly prepared students.  Using Yale and Harvard as two sample case studies, Ritter shows that basic writing courses were alive and well, even in the Ivy League, in the early twentieth century.  She argues not only that bas