Stump speech
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Stump speech may be:
- Stump speech (politics)Stump speech (politics)A political stump speech is a standard speech used by a politician running for office. The term derives from the custom in 19th century America for political candidates campaigning from town to town to stand upon a sawed off tree stump to deliver a standard speech...
, a political speech - Stump speech (minstrelsy)Stump speech (minstrelsy)The stump speech was a comic monologue from blackface minstrelsy...
, a part of the blackface minstrel show