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]. ... The nature of the theme advanced in the four-part "Appeal" -- enslavement and abolition -- should not to be considered the dominant factor in declaring "The Appeal" a literary classic, for indeed one can point to many other historical documents whose intent was to dismantl...

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