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A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass / edited by Neil Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Political companions to great American authors.
- Kentucky scholarship online.
- Political companions to great American authors
- Kentucky scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Influence.
- Douglass, Frederick.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Political and social views.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- African American abolitionists--Biography.
- African American abolitionists.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2018.
- Summary:
- Literary critics and historians have long studied Frederick Douglass's impact on American literature and history, yet surprisingly few scholars have analyzed his influence on American political thought. Political theorists have focused on the legacies of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, but editor Neil Roberts argues that it is impossible to understand their work or Afro-modern and American political thought without understanding Frederick Douglass's contributions. Douglass was a prolific writer and public speaker, and the contributors to this comprehensive volume examine not only his famous autobiographies but also his novels, essays, and speeches.
- Contents:
- Introduction: political thought in the shadow of Douglass / Neil Roberts
- Slavery, freedom, agency. Masters, mistresses, slaves, and the antinomies of modernity / Paul Gilroy
- The fight with Covey / Bernard R. Boxill
- Frederick Douglass's master-slave dialectic / Margaret Kohn
- Lectures on liberation / Angela Y. Davis
- Douglass's declarations of independence and practices of politics / Robert Gooding-Williams
- Judgment, intersectionality, human nature. Douglass and political judgment: the post-Reconstruction years / Jack Turner
- Black masculinity achieves nothing without restorative care: an intersectional rearticulation of Frederick Douglass / Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
- "The human heart is a seat of constant war": Frederick Douglass on human nature / Nicholas Buccola
- Seed-time and harvest-time: natural law and rational hopefulness in Frederick Douglass's life and times / Peter C. Myers
- The affect of God's law / Vincent Lloyd
- Law-breaker: Frederick Douglass and the rule of law / Anne Norton
- Rhetoric, citizenship, democracy. Frederick Douglass / Herbert J. Storing
- Staging dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the people" / Jason Frank
- "A blending of opposite qualities": Frederick Douglass and the demands of democratic citizenship / Nick Bromell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813175652
- 0813175658
- 9780813175638
- 0813175631
- 9780813175645
- 081317564X
- OCLC:
- 1040592855
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