African-American Rhetorical Education and Epistolary Relations at the Holley School (1868–1917)

Pamela VanHaitsma Pennsylvania State University

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ABSTRACT This study establishes the Holley School as an important site of African-American rhetorical education in the post–Civil War United States. Abolitionist Caroline F. Putnam was a white Northerner who, like countless other freedmen’s teachers, moved south after the war to teach formerly enslaved African Americans. Putnam’s educational work was remarkable, however, in that she taught rhetoric in service of racial justice and continued this work for almost fifty years. I argue that she was able to sustain the Holley School through epistolary relations cultivated to persuade others to join in educating freedmen as well as support the school through donations.

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Advances in the History of Rhetoric
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2018-09-02
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10.1080/15362426.2018.1526547
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