Additional Readings

This list contains a few anthologies of primary texts, some works on the general background, and a sample of rhetorical criticism of abolition, suffrage, and civil rights. Several of the items on this list are on reserve in Pattee Library; to check on the list of books that are on reserve, go to the on-line "regular reserve" page on the library web site.

Baldasty, Gerald L. "Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery." Communication Research 2 (1975): 412-428.

Banninga, Jerald L. "John Quincy Adams on the Right of a Slave to Petition Congress." Southern Communication Journal 38 (1972): 151-163.

Bass, Jeff D. "An Efficient Humanitarianism: The British Slave Trade Debates, 1791-1792." Quarterly Journal of Speech 75 (1989): 152-165.

Benson, Thomas W. "Rhetoric and Autobiography: The Case of Malcolm X." Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (1974): 1-13.

Benson, Thomas W., ed. Rhetoric and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1997.

Bradley, Bert E., and Jerry L. Tarver. "John C. Calhoun's Argumentation in Defense of Slavery." Southern Communication Journal 35 (1969): 163-175.

Browne, Stephen. ""Like Gory Spectres": Representing Evil in Theodore Weld's American Slavery As It Is." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (1994): 277-292.

Browne, Stephen H. "Remembering Crispus Attucks: Race, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Commemoration." Quarterly Journal of Speech 85 (1999): 169-187.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. Man Cannot Speak for Her: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric. Vol. 1. New York: Greenwood, 1989.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs, ed. Man Cannot Speak for Her: Key Texts of the Early Feminists. Vol. 2. New York: Greenwood, 1989.

Carmack, Paul A. "The Lane Seminary Debates." Communication Studies 1 (1950): 33-39.

Carpenter, Ronald H. "On American History Textbooks and Integration in the South: Woodrow Wilson and the Rhetoric of Division and Reunion, 1829-1889." Southern Communication Journal 51 (1985): 1-23.

Carson, Clayborne, David Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, and Darlene Clark Hine, eds. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

Condit, Celeste Michelle. "Democracy and Civil Rights: The Universalizing Influence of Public Argumentation." Communication Monographs 54 (1987): 1-18.

Cott, Nancy F., Jeanne Boydston, Ann Braude, Lori D. Ginzberg, and Molly Ladd-Taylor, eds. Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1996.

Devlin, Patrick L. "Hubert H. Humphrey's 1948 Civil Rights Speech." Communication Quarterly 16 (1968): 43-47.

Dick, Robert C. "Negro Oratory in the Anti-Slavery Societies: 1830-1860." Western Journal of Communication 28 (1964): 5-14.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Dover, [1845] 1995.

Dow, Bonnie J. "The "Womanhood" Rationale in the Woman Suffrage Rhetoric of Frances E. Willard." Southern Communication Journal 56 (1991): 298-307.

Dudley, William, ed. Slavery: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1992.

Flexner, Eleanor, and Ellen Fitzpatrick. A Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Enlarged ed. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.

Foner, Philip S., and Robert James Branham, eds. Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.

Fredrickson, George M., ed. William Lloyd Garrison. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Fulkerson, Gerald. "Frederick Douglass and the Kansas-Nebraska Act: A Case Study in Agitational Versatility." Communication Studies 23 (1972): 261-269.

Fulkerson, Gerald. "Exile as Emergence: Frederick Douglass in Great Britain, 1845-1847." Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (1974): 69-82.

Funk, Alfred A. "Henry David Thoreau's "Slavery in Massachusetts"." Western Journal of Communication 36 (1972): 159-168.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Mentor, 1987.

Goldzwig, Steven R., and George N. Dionisopoulos. "John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Discourse: The Evolution from "Principled Bystander" to Public Advocate." Communication Monographs 56 (1989): 179-198.

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, ed. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought. New York: The New Press, 1995.

Gwin, Stanford P. "Slavery and English Polarity: The Persuasive Campaign of John Bright against English Recognition of the Confederate States of America." Southern Communication Journal 49 (1984): 406-419.

Hammerback, John C. "The Rhetoric of a Righteous Reform: George Washington Julian's 1852 Campaign Against Slavery." Communication Studies 22 (1971): 85-93.

Hammerback, John C. "George W. Julian's Antislavery Crusade." Western Journal of Communication 37 (1973): 157-165.

Hemmer, Joseph J., Jr. "Robert A. Toombs Speaks for the South." Southern Communication Journal 28 (1963): 251-259.

Jabusch, David M. "The Rhetoric of Civil Rights." Western Journal of Communication 30 (1966): 176-184.

Japp, Phyllis M. "Esther or Isaiah?: The Abolitionist-Feminist Rhetoric of Angelina Grimke." Quarterly Journal of Speech 71 (1985): 335-348.

Kaminski, John P., ed. A Necessary Evil? Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution. Vol. 2, Constitutional Heritage Series. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1995.

Kennicott, Patrick C. "Black Persuaders in the Antislavery Movement." Communication Monographs 37 (1970): 15-24.

Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron De Hart, eds. Women's America: Refocusing the Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Kraditor, Aileen S. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

Lincoln, Abraham. Great Speeches. New York: Dover, 1991.

Lippman, Monroe. "Uncle Tom and His Poor Relations: American Slavery Plays." Southern Communication Journal 28 (1963): 183-197.

Logue, Cal M. "Shifts in the Rhetorical Status of Blacks after Freedom." Southern Communication Journal 54 (1988): 1-39.

Lucaites, John Louis, and Celeste Michelle Condit. "Reconstructing Equality: Culturetypal and Counter-Cultural Rhetorics in the Martyred Black Vision." Communication Monographs 57 (1990): 5-24.

Makay, John J. "The Rhetoric of George C. Wallace and the 1964 Civil Rights Law." Communication Quarterly 18 (1970): 26-33.

McKitrick, Eric L., ed. Slavery Defended: The Views of the Old South. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

Monsma, John W., Jr. "John Brown: The Two-Edged Sword of Abolition." Communication Studies 13 (1961): 22-29.

Nye, Russell B. "Freedom of the Press and the Antislavery Controversy." Journalism Quarterly 22 (1945): 1-11.

Pease, William H., and Jane H. Pease, eds. The Antislavery Argument. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.

Peterson, Owen. "Judah P. Benjamin's Senate Speeches on Slavery and Secession." Southern Communication Journal 23 (1957): 10-20.

Reed, Robert Michael. "The Case of Missionary Smith: A Crucial Incident in the Rhetoric of the British Anti-Slavery Movement." Communication Studies 29 (1978): 61-71.

Ripley, C. Peter, ed. Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Shaw, Donald Lewis. "News About Slavery from 1820-1860 in Newspapers of South, North, and West." Journalism Quarterly 61 (1984): 483-492.

Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992. Revised ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Smith, Arthur L. "Henry Highland Garnet: Black Revolutionary in Sheep's Vestments." Communication Studies 21 (1970): 93-98.

Taylor, Yuval, ed. I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives, 1772-1849. Vol. 1. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999.

Taylor, Yuval, ed. I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives, 1849-1866. Vol. 2. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999.

Thomas, John L., ed. Slavery Attacked: The Abolitionist Crusade. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965.

Truth, Sojourner. Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Mineola, NY: Dover, [1850] 1997.

Wagner, Gerard A. "Sojourner Truth: God's Appointed Apostle of Reform." Southern Communication Journal 28 (1962): 123-130.

Wander, Philip C. "The Savage Child: The Image of the Negro in the Pro-Slavery Movement." Southern Communication Journal 37 (1972): 335-360.

Weaver, Richard L. II. "The Negro Issue: Agitation in the Michigan Lyceum." Communication Studies 22 (1971): 196-201.

Whitby, Gary L. "Horns of a Dilemma: The Sun, Abolition, and the 1833-34 New York Riots." Journalism Quarterly 67 (1990): 410-419.

Zarefsky, David. "Consistency and Change in Lincoln's Rhetoric about Equality." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 1 (1998): 21-44.

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