{"product_id":"lift-every-voice-african-american-oratory-17871901-studies-in-rhetoric-and-communication-9780817309060","title":"Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1901 (Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1901 (Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Foner, Philip S.. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780817309060.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive anthology will be the standard source for the\nstudy of African American public address for years to come.\nFor Americans of the 19th century, as W. E. B. Du Bois observed, eloquent\nspeeches were the shining lights of civilization that both expressed\nand sought to improve the lives and communities from which they sprang.\nThrough political speeches, sermons, lectures, oral testimonies, and ceremonial\naddresses, African Americans offered diverse responses to the issues and\nevents of their times, including not only slavery and racial equality but\nalso womens rights, education, religion, immigration, socialism, war,\nIndian policy, and labor organization, among others. The speeches in this\ncollection are among the most powerful expressions of African American\nopinions on these issues and were delivered on occasions and before audiences\nwhere the speakers believed their words might be transformative.\nLift Every Voice is a completely revised, updated, and expanded\nversion of Philip Foners 1972 classic Voice of Black America, which Library\nJournal hailed as \"indispensable.\"\"This well-edited and\nrichly inclusive work,\" wrote Benjamin Quarles, \"unveils the\nfull sweep of Black expression as found in platform addresses\" by\n\"men and women who join eloquence with reason in articulating their\ngrievances and their aspirations and in arousing their listeners with their\nringing and prophetic challenges.\" This new collection includes over\n60 additional texts and revised and expanded introductory essays that provide\nhistorical, biographical, and critical information for each speech.\nContaining more than 150 speeches, this anthology represents the most\nextensive and diverse collection of African American oratory of the 18th\nand 19th centuries ever published. Lift Every Voice makes readily\naccessible not only the classic orations of such well-known figures\nas Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Booker T. Washington but also\ndozens of lesser-known but important speeches deserving greater recognition\nand study. Many of these speeches are previously unpublished, uncollected,\nor long out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946687426613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0817309063","price":63.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780817309060_20152570-da86-425b-b6b1-6e8e5454c6c0.jpg?v=1778846986","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lift-every-voice-african-american-oratory-17871901-studies-in-rhetoric-and-communication-9780817309060","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}