Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement

by Bjorn F Stillion Southard and Bjorn F. Stillion Southard

Book Overview

Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496823834
• ISBN13: 9781496823830
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"