The Black American political jeremiad carried pulpit rhetoric onto the statehouse floor

Evidence

Once Turner realized that those white officials had no intention of allowing him or the other newly elected Black lawmakers to be seated, he wrote a defiant speech entitled “I Claim the Rights of a Man.” Though it would be voiced from the statehouse floor, it was very much in the tradition of the jeremiad, delivered from the pulpit, that had already begun to define the Black church in America. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1034

Categorization

• DEFINE: Identifies the jeremiad as a defined rhetorical tradition that Black political speech inherited from the pulpit.