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- catalog abstract ""While scholars of American history have written extensively about slave insurgency in the form of rebellion, William E. Wiethoff considers a more subtle form of resistance that caused considerable consternation among the slaveholders - that of insolence." "In this original contribution to the study of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century rhetoric, Wiethoff assesses the southern gentry's attempts to manage what they interpreted as insolence, sheds light on the power of slave speech, and illumines long-term implications for African American code-switching and other forms of rhetoric." "Through surveys and case studies that include Fanny Kemble's firsthand narrative and entries from William Byrd's diary, Wiethoff evaluates the steps taken by slaveowners to suppress presumed slave insolence. Employing rhetorical, historical, and legal analyses, he examines expressions of unreflective judgment, self-persuasion, and sectional propaganda developed by the gentry to explain the insolent slave. Wiethoff identifies as especially noteworthy the related responses of overseers and plantation mistresses who were forced into an intermediary position between the higher authority of the plantation owner and the special manipulation directed at them by the slaves." "Wiethoff demonstrates that slaves learned quickly when to move toward the insolent and how to disguise their expressions of criticism and contempt. Though he finds insolence to be a rarely and carefully used "rhetoric of resistance," Wiethoff also finds that slaveowners attached legislative, social, moral, and commercial meanings to this discourse."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12440607.
- catalog coverage "Southern States Languages.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Race relations.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""While scholars of American history have written extensively about slave insurgency in the form of rebellion, William E. Wiethoff considers a more subtle form of resistance that caused considerable consternation among the slaveholders - that of insolence." "In this original contribution to the study of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century rhetoric, Wiethoff assesses the southern gentry's attempts to manage what they interpreted as insolence, sheds light on the power of slave speech, and illumines long-term implications for African American code-switching and other forms of rhetoric." "Through surveys and case studies that include Fanny Kemble's firsthand narrative and entries from William Byrd's diary, Wiethoff evaluates the steps taken by slaveowners to suppress presumed slave insolence. Employing rhetorical, historical, and legal analyses, he examines expressions of unreflective judgment, self-persuasion, and sectional propaganda developed by the gentry to explain the insolent slave. Wiethoff identifies as especially noteworthy the related responses of overseers and plantation mistresses who were forced into an intermediary position between the higher authority of the plantation owner and the special manipulation directed at them by the slaves." "Wiethoff demonstrates that slaves learned quickly when to move toward the insolent and how to disguise their expressions of criticism and contempt. Though he finds insolence to be a rarely and carefully used "rhetoric of resistance," Wiethoff also finds that slaveowners attached legislative, social, moral, and commercial meanings to this discourse."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-217) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The legislative perspective -- 1. "Subordination not susceptible of any modification or restriction" -- 2. The master of Westover -- pt. 2. The business perspective -- 3. "A perfect understanding between a master and a slave" -- 4. The Polk overseers -- pt. 3. The social perspective -- 5. "An offence which consists of inconsistency" -- 6. The reluctant mistress -- pt. 4. The moral perspective -- 7. "The crowning glory of this age" -- 8. The judge and patriarch.".
- catalog extent "223 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1570034141 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in rhetoric/communication".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Languages.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog subject "305.5/67/0975 21".
- catalog subject "E443 .W6 2002".
- catalog subject "English language Discourse analysis.".
- catalog subject "Gentry Southern States Attitudes History.".
- catalog subject "Gentry Southern States Language History.".
- catalog subject "Invective Social aspects Southern States History.".
- catalog subject "Invective Southern States Social aspects History.".
- catalog subject "Plantation life Southern States History.".
- catalog subject "Slave insurrections Social aspects Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Slavery Law and legislation Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Slaves Legal status, laws, etc. Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Slaves Southern States Language.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The legislative perspective -- 1. "Subordination not susceptible of any modification or restriction" -- 2. The master of Westover -- pt. 2. The business perspective -- 3. "A perfect understanding between a master and a slave" -- 4. The Polk overseers -- pt. 3. The social perspective -- 5. "An offence which consists of inconsistency" -- 6. The reluctant mistress -- pt. 4. The moral perspective -- 7. "The crowning glory of this age" -- 8. The judge and patriarch.".
- catalog title "The insolent slave / William E. Wiethoff.".
- catalog type "text".