Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM; DEFINITION OF TERMS; DEFINITION OF ETHOS; LIMITS OF THE STUDY; METHOD AND CHAPTER OUTLINE; SUMMARY; CHAPTER TWO Reformation and Resentment in Antebellum America; CHAPTER PREVIEW: ANTEBELLUM RHETORICAL CULTURE; THE USE VALUE OF RHETORIC IN DOUGLASS'S AMERICA; THE "SUPERIOR DIFFUSION OF INTELLIGENCE"; THE RESENTFUL REACTION TO STRONG REFORM RHETORIC; SUMMARY; CHAPTER THREE Antebellum Rhetorical Culture in Theory, Criticism, and Practice; RHETORICAL THEORY MADE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE.
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Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change.
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Frederick Douglass's curious audiences.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895-- Ethics.
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895-- Oratory.
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895-- Public opinion.
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895
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Audiences-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Ethics-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Oratory-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Public opinion-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Rhetoric-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.