> I’d like to know more about the actual words, “Am > I not a Man and a Brother?,” and especially the > source of [the so-captioned icon's] rhetorical power.> To my mind that power comes from what seems a > direct challenge to Jefferson’s “all men are created > equal,” but though I can find works where the phrases> are mentioned near to each other, I so far have found > no comments on the force of what might be a rebuke.
Thanks, Professor Meyers. If anything turns up, I'll bet I'm not the only forum participant who would be grateful to hear about it.
Steven T. Corneliussen
______________________________________
To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at
https://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html
This list is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).