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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index