“Do you understand your own language?” Revolutionary topoi in the rhetoric of African American abolitionists

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 55-75

  Bacon, Jacqueline ^a  

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EID: 0346606977     PISSN: 02773945     EISSN: 1930322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02773949809391119     Document Type: Article

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