College English Nov 2009

Classics and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century Historically Black Colleges

Susan C. Jarratt

Abstract

In the post-Civil War United States, several historically black colleges gave a central role to classical rhetoric in their curricula, and many of their students used its concepts to develop a distinctly black, oppositional public sphere.

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College English
Published
2009-11-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20098985
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classical rhetoric rhetorical criticism public rhetoric
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