Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Public History In Public Service'

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One obvious dilemma to portraying African American history is how to display the information to the public while being objective, but still teaching the tragic applications this has for the human community. When emphasizing the physical conditions in addition to the psychological neurosis that slavery and institutional oppression has had on the black community it may come across to some of the target audience as a bias and subjective argument. As Horton brings attention to in “Public History in Public Service” there is a notion held an overwhelming group of people, mostly white, who feel slavery was hardly brutality, but a mutually beneficial and cohesive agreement between slaves and slave owners (809). Furthermore, the new information provided

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