@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9qg0mg.12,
 ISBN = {9780814762226},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qg0mg.12},
 abstract = {By the late 1830s, many African American abolitionists began publicly expressing a desire for independence from white antislavery leaders with whom they had previously collaborated. In powerful statements declaring their desire for self-determination, they argued that their white colleagues’ attempts to control and restrict their rhetoric and activism were offensive and oppressive. In doing so, they critiqued white abolitionist leaders’ racism, affirmed African Americans’ right to create arguments on their own terms, and uncovered the history of black rhetorical activism that gave them empowering precedent for their efforts. These declarations challenged the established power relationships within the abolition movement, enabled},
 author = {Jacqueline Bacon},
 booktitle = {Critical Rhetorics of Race},
 pages = {139--158},
 publisher = {NYU Press},
 title = {Declarations of Independence: African American Abolitionists and the Struggle for Racial and Rhetorical Self-Determination},
 year = {2011}
}