Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

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Laura L. Mielke
University of Michigan Press

Laura L. Mielke recounts how the theater, long an arena for heightened eloquence and physical contest, proved terribly relevant in the lead up to the Civil War. As antislavery speech and open conflict intertwined, the nation became a stage.

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