The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
Description:
The dissertation argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abolitionists' perception that their actions were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a perceived fulfillment: abolition. Thus, the dissertation examines the rhetorical strategies used by white abolitionists to construct an abolitionist kairos that was designed to produce salvation for white B…
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Date:
December 1999
Creator:
Evans, Dennis F.
Partner:
UNT Libraries