Contents
Introduction | David Zarefsky
1. A Nation “at the Edge of the Precipice”: The Senate Debate over Henry Clay’s 1850 Compromise Measures | Donovan Bisbee and James Jasinski
2. The Proslavery Argument of the 1850s: From Calhoun to Stephens | David F. Ericson
3. Stephen A. Douglas and the Limits of Rhetorical Containment | Robert E. Terrill
4. The Rhetoric of Salmon P. Chase: Antislavery between Principle and Politics | Michael William Pfau
5. Frederick Douglass: A Speaker on the Move | Bjørn F. Stillion Southard
6. “No Neutral Ground”: Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Science | Stephen Howard Browne
7. The “Second Tier” of Abraham Lincoln’s Public Discourse | David Zarefsky
8. Abraham Lincoln’s Public Letters and the “Popular Heart” | Douglas L. Wilson
9. Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address | Garry Wills
10. Constructing Freedom and Equality: The Congressional Civil Rights Debates of Reconstruction | Kirt H. Wilson
11. “No Longer by Your Leave”: The Impact of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments on Women’s Rhetoric | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Angela G. Ray
12. Re-constructing Reconstruction | E. Culpepper Clark
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