Sites of Rhetorical Education for African Americans in the 19th Century

FAIN: FA-52423-06

Shirley Wilson Logan
University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)

The project analyzes the experiences that served to improve communicative abilities of nineteenth-century African Americans. This "rhetorical education" took place through imported African oral traditions of storytelling; church-affiliated singing, preaching, and teaching; social gatherings in homes; literary and debating societies; self-education; public political gatherings; pamphleteering and the black press; and formal instruction in black schools and colleges, to name the more prominent sites. By adding to our understanding of the ways in which people have acquired and can acquire communicative abilities, this project will help to guide our approaches to contemporary rhetorical education as a means to a more participatory democracy.

Associated Products

Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America (Book)
Title: Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America
Author: Shirley Wilson Logan
Abstract: Logan traces the ways that African Americans learned lessons in rhetoric through language-based activities associated with black survival in nineteenth-century America, such as working in political organizations, reading and publishing newspapers, maintaining diaries, and participating in literary societies.
Year: 2008
Primary URL: https://umaryland.on.worldcat.org/oclc/435824420?databaseList=638
Access Model: Open
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-8093-28
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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