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Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus
Fanatical Schemes Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus
Author: Patricia Roberts-Miller
What was the relationship between rhetoric and slavery, and how did rhetoric fail as an alternative to violence, becoming instead its precursor? Fanatical Schemes is a study of proslavery rhetoric in the 1830s. A common understanding of the antebellum slavery debate is that the increased stridency of abolitionists in the 1830s, particularly the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780817356538
ISBN-10: 0817356533
Publication Date: 7/7/2010
Pages: 296
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University Alabama Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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