3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American abolitionist, author, and statesman — who escaped slavery in 1838, taught himself to read and write in defiance of law, became the most famous orator and writer in the abolitionist movement, and served as US Marshal for the District of Columbia — author of three autobiographies.
Athenian logographer (speech writer) — one of the ten canonical Attic orators — whose speech on love (arguing that it is better to gratify the non-lover than the lover) opens Plato's Phaedrus and is used by Socrates as a foil for his own account of eros.
British Quaker politician and radical orator — Cobden's partner in the Anti-Corn Law League and one of the greatest parliamentary speakers of the Victorian era.