Examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's radically egalitarian practice through her involvement in the abolitionist movement, emancipation, Reconstruction, and into the Jim Crow era, placing her work firmly in black-nationalist lineages. This book...
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Examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's radically egalitarian practice through her involvement in the abolitionist movement, emancipation, Reconstruction, and into the Jim Crow era, placing her work firmly in black-nationalist lineages. This book contributes to the contemporary portrayal of Harper as a theorist of African-American feminism
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Frances Harper and Nineteenth-Century African American Rhetorical Pedagogy; 1 Composing Character: Cultural Sources of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy; 2 Reconstruction and Black Republican Pedagogy; 3 Temperance Pedagogy: Lessons of Character in a Drunken Economy; 4 Black Ireland: The Political Economics of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy after Reconstruction; 5 Not as a Mere Dependent: The Historic Mission of African American Women's Rhetoric at the End of the Century; Afterword
Appendix: A Selected Chronology of Writing and Oratory by Frances Ellen Watkins HarperNotes; Bibliography; Index
