Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s “A Slave Story I Began and Abandoned”: Abolitionist Debates During the 1830s

Matthew Teutsch
19 min readJun 2, 2024
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

My dissertation, “We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause”: Rhetorical Links Between Native Americans and Africans Americans during the 1820s and 1830s focuses on the rhetorical intersections between white women, African Americans, and Indigenous Americans during the Antebellum period, specifically the 1830s-1850s. When I

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Matthew Teutsch

Here, you will find reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy.