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Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics Elizabeth M. Dowling to give them a glimpseIn the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts from letters, preaching, and speeches to