A Call to Political and Social Activism: The Jeremiadic Discourse of Maria Miller Stewart, 1831-1833

This essay identifies the rhetorical strategies of Maria Miller Stewart’s Boston anti-slavery discourse as jeremiads that connected her religious, moral, political and social lamentations of the American democratic system and called her audiences to aid in the desensitizing of slavery and America prejudice. When she attempted to establish a common ground, the aim of Stewart’s jeremiads was to make her audiences conscious of the numerous social and political grievances within the African-American community. Stewart’s jeremiadic discourse called for the deterioration of American racism and sexism and provided an agency that constituted a form of resistance

“I am an Anarchist”: The Social Anarchism of Lucy E. Parsons

A determined advocate of socialism anarchism, Lucy E. Parsons believed that inequities in society stemmed from unequal power relations between government and the people. Parsons delivered powerful orations and had an enormous influence in world history in general and US labor history in particular. This essay raises two issues: Parsons’ view of human nature and the degree to which her ideas were rooted in a theory of historical progress. She maintained a staunch commitment to establishing and maintaining collective freedom and her allegiance was demonstrated by her perpetual critiques of any form of domination or subordination of the working class perpetrated by government

Prospectus, December 14, 1983

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To bear the slave\u27s heavy cross : religion and the jeremiadic tradition as literary and social constructions in African-American protest, 1760--1865

This dissertation argues for the continuity of the Negro jeremiad on other forms of African-American protest. Recently, scholars of the origin of the Negro jeremiad have shown how black leaders have employed jeremiadic rhetoric of social prophecy and criticism to create a variant that is specifically African American. Wilson Jeremiah Moses and David Howard-Pitney have argued that the Negro jeremiad has been a leading feature of black protest rhetoric from the antebellum through the modern civil rights era. I hope to complement and expand upon their scholarship by examining other forms of nineteenth-century African-American protest (i.e. slave narratives, novels, poetry, rebellions) to show how they where consistently influence by the American jeremiad and how they have employed elements of the jeremiad to advance distinct social interests and political agendas. In The Afro-American Jeremiad: Appeal For Justice in America, Howard-Pitney appropriately suggests what the components of the jeremiad are: citing the promise, criticism of present declension or retrogression from the promise, and resolving prophecy that society will shortly complete its mission and redeem the promise (8)

To bear the slave\u27s heavy cross

This dissertation argues for the continuity of the Negro jeremiad on other forms of African-American protest. Recently, scholars of the origin of the Negro jeremiad have shown how black leaders have employed jeremiadic rhetoric of social prophecy and criticism to create a variant that is specifically African American. Wilson Jeremiah Moses and David Howard-Pitney have argued that the Negro jeremiad has been a leading feature of black protest rhetoric from the antebellum through the modern civil rights era. I hope to complement and expand upon their scholarship by examining other forms of nineteenth-century African-American protest (i.e. slave narratives, novels, poetry, rebellions) to show how they where consistently influence by the American jeremiad and how they have employed elements of the jeremiad to advance distinct social interests and political agendas. In The Afro-American Jeremiad: Appeal For Justice in America, Howard-Pitney appropriately suggests what the components of the jeremiad are: citing the promise, criticism of present declension or retrogression from the promise, and resolving prophecy that society will shortly complete its mission and redeem the promise (8)