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Autore |
Browne Stephen H |
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Titolo |
Angelina Grimke [[electronic resource] ] : Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination |
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East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 1999 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series |
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Disciplina |
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Rhetoric - Political aspects - 19th century - History - United States |
Radicalism - History - 19th century - United States |
Antislavery movements - History - 19th century - United States |
Women's rights - History - 19th century - United States |
English language - Rhetoric - United States |
Regions & Countries - Americas |
History & Archaeology |
United States - General |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Encountering Angelina Grimké; Chapter 1: Beginnings: Rhetoric and Identity in the Journal of Angelina Grimké; Chapter 2: Violence, Identity, and the Creation of Radical Community; Chapter 3: Real Pasts and Imagined Futures in the Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; Chapter 4: "An Entirely New Contest": Grimké, Beecher, and the Language of Reform; Chapter 5: "To Open Our Mouths for the Dumb": Grimké, Weld, and the Debate over Women's Speech; Chapter 6: Violent Inventions: Witnessing Slavery in the Pennsylvania Hall Address; Epilogue; Notes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, Angelina Grimké (1805-79) was among the first women in American history to seize the public stage in pursuit of radical social reform. ""I will lift up my voice like a trumpet,"" she proclaimed, ""and show this people their transgressions."" And when she did lift her voice in public, on behalf of |
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the public, she found that, in creating herself, she might transform the world. In the process, Grimké crossed the wires of race, gender, and power, and produced explosions that lit up the world of antebellum reform. Among the most |
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