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Transcending Coercion: The Communicative Strategies of Black Slaves on Antebellum Plantations.
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Logue, Cal M. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1981
Discusses the coercive controls imposed upon Blacks during slavery, including regimenting their lives, restricting their learning experiences, limiting their opportunities to communicate, and prescribing demeaning role behavior. Rhetorical strategies employed by Blacks included a defensive posture of accommodation and a more aggressive behavior of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black History, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research