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Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31346-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-31345-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 19, 2016

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Making It Stick

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 1 –20

[A question remaining in historical accounts of US abolitionism concerns what made the movement ‘move’ and how it achieved the temporal qualities of momentum and persistence that define successful social movements. Lamb-Books argues that protest rhetoric is constitutive in this process and...
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Indignant Hearts of Protest

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 23 –61

[Drawing upon theories of affect and ‘big rhetoric,’ this chapter proposes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum over time. Considering an impromptu speech by Wendell Phillips to Bostonians, Lamb-Books observes how...
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Moving Contexts of Abolition

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 63 –92

[This chapter contextualizes immediatist abolitionism as a historical case study for analyzing protest rhetoric, emotions, and charisma in social movements. Taking the moral emotions seriously, Lamb-Books proposes a more inclusive ‘big rhetoric’ approach to the boundaries of abolitionism in order...
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The Rhetoric of Slavery

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 93 –119

[The problematization of American slavery through abolitionist discourse was as much an affective process as a cognitive one. Drawing upon nineteenth-century cultural traditions of Sentimentalism, Republicanism, and Evangelical Protestantism, abolitionist protest rhetoric framed slavery...
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Gender Trouble in Abolitionism: On Ethos Work

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 123 –155

[Status hierarchies cutting across and within social movements give rise to emotional inequalities that constrain opportunities for protest rhetoric. Yet some status-subordinated participants invent ways of surmounting the status binds and of seizing moral authority on stage. This chapter...
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Systemic Racism and the Rhetoric of Recognition

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 157 –200

[This chapter investigates the status dynamics of racial inequality within abolitionism and the strategic dilemmas faced by black abolitionists. Black protest rhetoric developed distinctive indexical properties of frame-busting out of closer personal, familial, and historical experience with...
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How Charisma and Pathos Move Audiences

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 203 –222

[This chapter constructs an original performative theory of how status dynamics unfold in situ at contentious gatherings. Reception fields refer to the situational socioemotional relationships between salient speakers and their joint-attentive audiences. Building upon the growing interest in...
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Looking Back Ahead: When Status Conflicts Explode

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 223 –241

[The campaign of contentious performances in abolitionism heightened the conflict between competing rhetorics of slavery and hence drove forward the problematization of American slavery. Heterodoxic status imaginaries of race and gender promoted by the abolitionists were especially provocative...
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Conclusion

Lamb-Books, Benjamin

Pages: 243 –250

[In this concluding chapter, Lamb-Books reviews the argument that, by arousing status-oriented moral emotions, protest rhetoric moves both social movements and countermovement reactions. He summarizes how rhetorical performances of ethos and pathos by the abolitionists contributed to making the...

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