![]() ![]() No doubt Woodson felt that political and judicial rhetoric were better suited to be recorded in printed form than the sermons that nonetheless, in his view, exemplified African American public speaking at its best. Even though Woodson did not include sermons in his volume and tried to showcase the African American’s virtuosity in the classical genres of rhetoric, his introductory overview of the rhetorical genres did acknowledge pulpit oratory, “ in which the Negro seems destined to excell all others” (1925, p. The book was meant to showcase speeches as among the most notable cultural achievements by African Americans as well as to establish a tradition of black oratory. Woodson was a Howard University historian committed to opening both white and black eyes to the history and culture of African Americans. Negro Orators and Their Orations, an anthology containing “ practically all of the extant speeches of consequence delivered by Negroes of the United States” (Woodson: 1925, s. On the eve of the Harlem Renaissance, Carter Woodson published ![]()
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