Bjørn F Stillion Southard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4459187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bjørn F Stillion Southard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bjørn F Stillion |
| FAMILY NAME | Southard |
| SIGNATURE | SOUTHARD B F S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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The Measured Memory of Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument Address, delivered on April 14, 1876, at the unveiling of a monument to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC, was a complex and extraordinary rhetorical act. This essay argues that Douglass's address created a measured memory of Lincoln by moving the audience through a cycle of experiences that allowed multiple, often conflicting, sentiments to meaningfully coexist. The essay begins with an account of key con…
Peculiar Rhetoric
The African colonization movement plays a peculiar role in the study of racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement was positioned as a compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America’s borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard shows how politics and identity were negotiated in middle of the public discourse on race, slavery, and freedom in Am…
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress and Public Policy Advocacy for African Colonization
This essay situates Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message within the context of previous discourse on African colonization to illuminate the significance of the text as public policy rhetoric. I argue that Lincoln’s proposal for compensated emancipation and colonization in the Second Annual Message was the apotheosis of colonization advocacy. Lincoln’s argumentation navigated the complicated context to make a final, but failed, case for a compr…
The plain style in early anti-slavery discourse
The two earliest public protests against slavery in British North America—the Germantown Quakers’ petition and Samuel Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph—are primarily discussed as rhetorical failures and have been largely reduced to entries on an anti-slavery timeline. The texts are further diminished for their lack of intensity compared with later abolitionist discourses. This essay reassesses these germinal protests as dynamic texts that engage and…
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Book Review| December 01 2015 In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012; pp. x + 446. $59.95 cloth; $27.50 paper. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard Bjørn F. Stillion Southard University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Publi…
Common Bondage
Book Review| March 01 2011 Common Bondage: Slavery as Metaphor in Revolutionary America Common Bondage: Slavery as Metaphor in Revolutionary America. Peter A. Dorsey. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard Bjørn F. Stillion Southard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2011) 14 (1): 177–180. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940531 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search S…
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Common Bondage
Book Review| March 01 2011 Common Bondage: Slavery as Metaphor in Revolutionary America Common Bondage: Slavery as Metaphor in Revolutionary America. Peter A. Dorsey. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard Bjørn F. Stillion Southard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2011) 14 (1): 177–180. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940531 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search S…
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Book Review| December 01 2015 In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity. By Jeannine Marie DeLombard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012; pp. x + 446. $59.95 cloth; $27.50 paper. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard Bjørn F. Stillion Southard University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Publi…
The plain style in early anti-slavery discourse
The two earliest public protests against slavery in British North America—the Germantown Quakers’ petition and Samuel Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph—are primarily discussed as rhetorical failures and have been largely reduced to entries on an anti-slavery timeline. The texts are further diminished for their lack of intensity compared with later abolitionist discourses. This essay reassesses these germinal protests as dynamic texts that engage and…
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress and Public Policy Advocacy for African Colonization
This essay situates Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message within the context of previous discourse on African colonization to illuminate the significance of the text as public policy rhetoric. I argue that Lincoln’s proposal for compensated emancipation and colonization in the Second Annual Message was the apotheosis of colonization advocacy. Lincoln’s argumentation navigated the complicated context to make a final, but failed, case for a compr…
Peculiar Rhetoric
The African colonization movement plays a peculiar role in the study of racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement was positioned as a compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America’s borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard shows how politics and identity were negotiated in middle of the public discourse on race, slavery, and freedom in Am…
Staged News
The Measured Memory of Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument Address, delivered on April 14, 1876, at the unveiling of a monument to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC, was a complex and extraordinary rhetorical act. This essay argues that Douglass's address created a measured memory of Lincoln by moving the audience through a cycle of experiences that allowed multiple, often conflicting, sentiments to meaningfully coexist. The essay begins with an account of key con…
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