... Essay on Man" and other great works of didactic literature. According to M. H. Abraham's A Glossary of Literary Terms adherents to the school of didactic literature follow certain conventions: "[The work] expound[s] a branch of theoretical or practical knowledge, or present[s] in an impressive and persuasive imaginative form, a moral, religious or philosophical thesis or doctrine [Turner 39]. That Walker's work is persuasive is ... clear from historical records. For written evidence shows that "The Appeal" provided a shot in the arm to the abolitionist movement, for according to Turner, ...

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