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In 1925, Carter G. Woodson published a collection of speeches delivered by African Americans titled "Negro Orators and Their Orations." While Woodson’s work was the focus of my talk at #PAC2022, he wasn't the first one to address Black oratory in a more structured way. 
One of the earliest treatments we have on oratory from an African American is from William G. Allen, who served as a professor of rhetoric at Central College in McGrawville, New York.
In his lecture on June 22, 1852, titled “On Orators and Oratory,” according to Carolyn Calloway Thomas, Allen becomes the first African American to leave a record of intellectual probing into the operation of the ancient art of oratory.” jstor.org/stable/3885318
