Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences

Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change.

Terry Baxter received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1998.

1. Introduction 2. Reformation and Resentment in Antebellum America 3. Antebellum Rhetorical Culture in Theory, Criticism and Practice 4. The Construction of Blackness and the Constraint of Ethos 5. Douglass as an Exhibit of Ethos Bibliography