ABSTRACT Abolitionist Sallie Holley (1818–1893) lectured widely as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, but she is understudied in rhetoric because her speech transcripts are not extant in existing archives. This essay argues that, even where faced with such archival absences, rhetorical scholars may reconstruct a speaker's career through compilation and analysis of digital surrogates and metadata. In Holley's case, these digital methods are revealing of the map and timeline of her career, patterns in her lectures, and the gendered significance of her public speaking. Similar methods may serve research focused not only on public address by nineteenth-century women like Holley, but on a range of rhetorical practices marked by those archival absences especially common to rhetors who are marginalized by gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, and/or ability.

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在档案缺席和信息丰富之间：通过数字代理和元数据重建莎莉·霍利的废奴主义修辞

摘要 废奴主义者莎莉·霍利（Sallie Holley，1818-1893 年）作为美国反奴隶制协会的代理人进行了广泛的演讲，但她的修辞学研究不足，因为她的演讲稿在现有档案中不存在。本文认为，即使面对这样的档案缺失，修辞学者也可以通过汇编和分析数字替代品和元数据来重建演讲者的职业生涯。在 Holley 的案例中，这些数字方法揭示了她职业生涯的地图和时间表、她的讲座模式以及她公开演讲的性别意义。类似的方法不仅可以服务于像 Holley 这样的 19 世纪女性的公共演讲，而且可以服务于一系列以档案缺席为标志的修辞实践，尤其是那些被性别、性取向、种族、