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Crusade against slavery : Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom / Kurt E. Leichtle and Bruce G. Carveth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leichtle, Kurt E., 1949-
- Series:
- Studies in writing & rhetoric.
- CCCC studies in writing & rhetoric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Governors--Illinois--Biography.
- Governors.
- Slavery--Illinois--History.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Illinois--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Freed persons--Illinois--Biography.
- Freed persons.
- African Americans--Illinois--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Illinois--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Illinois.
- Illinois--Politics and government--To 1865.
- Coles, Edward, 1786-1868.
- Coles, Edward.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, Kelly Ritter uses materials from the archives at Harvard and Yale and contemporary theories of writing instruction to reconsider the definition of basic writing and basic writers within a socio-historical context. Ritter challenges the association of basic writing with only poorly funded institutions and poorly prepared students. Using Yale and Harvard as two sample case studies, Ritter shows that basic writing courses were alive and well, even in the Ivy League, in the early twentieth century. She argues not only that bas
- Contents:
- "Dust in the balance" : an introduction
- River and opportunity
- Man of property
- Release
- Beginning
- A rough land of great promise
- Contest and convention
- A prairie firestorm
- The chasm
- The complaint
- The emancipator
- The devastating truth of Madison's will
- The aging historian
- The preacher
- Prodigal Virginian
- The woodlands.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-336-15363-6
- 1-280-69748-2
- 9786613674449
- 0-8093-8944-4
- 9780809389945
- OCLC:
- 742517215
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