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Texting the Nation analyzes rhetorical and grammatical patterns of agency in the Declaration's text and three-part logical argument, in the contexts of political and literal slavery, the deleted slavery clause, and the heavily edited conclusion, including slavery background, composition history, and later critical reputation.
Michael Ditmore is Professor of English specializing in early American literature and Great Books at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, where he has also served as Director of American Studies and Dean of the Humanities/Teacher Education Division. He has previously published on William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Ashbridge, Jonathan Edwards, Crèvecoeur, and Benjamin Franklin.
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