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An African in a Toga: Joseph Cinqué and the Roman Rhetoric of the American Revolution
- Classical World
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 108, Number 4, Summer 2015
- pp. 525-535
- 10.1353/clw.2015.0050
- Article
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Abstract
The Revolutionary generation regularly invoked the example of Cato the Younger and his fierce resistance to the death to the tyranny of Julius Caesar, whom they compared to King George III in their own passionate resistance to the “slavery” of the British monarchy. Abolitionists appropriated Roman allusions in order to expose the hypocrisy of the revolutionary rhetoric of liberty in the face of the institution of slavery and to make clear the vast difference between chattel slavery and slavery as a metaphor for political bondage.
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