Signatures of citizenship: The rhetoric of women's antislavery petitions

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 147-168

  Zaeske, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Abolition; Citizenship; Identity; Petition; Public sphere; Republicanism; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040082109     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335630209384368     Document Type: Article

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