Abstract

This article examines rhetorical places (loci) in Lydia Maria Child's abolitionist rhetoric during the course of her career as a social-activist. I invoke the term homeplaces to consider how Child's rhetorical places constitute collective social agency for freed African Africans.

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Rhetoric Review
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2006-07-01
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10.1207/s15327981rr2503_2
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