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Earlier characterization of “scaffold confessions” and “martyrdom speeches” as a discrete genre of discourse were flawed because the speeches were delivered in dissimilar situations, sought different purposes, and employed diverse rhetorical strategies. Those speeches are better viewed as a distinctive subgenre of apologia. Analysis of John Brown's final speech at his trial following the Harper's Ferry raid illuminates that subgenre.
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