Frederick Douglass : America's Prophet / D.H. Dilbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dilbeck, D. H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American orators--United States--Biography.

African American orators.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Religion.

Douglass, Frederick.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

2018.

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation of Douglass's life through the lens of his faith. In an era when the role of religion in public life is as contentious as ever, Dilbeck provides essential new perspective on Douglass's place in American history. Douglass came to faith as a teenager among African American Methodists in Baltimore. For the rest of his life, he adhered to a distinctly prophetic Christianity. Imitating the ancient Hebrew prophets and Jesus Christ, Douglass boldly condemned evil and oppression, especially when committed by the powerful. Dilbeck shows how Douglass's prophetic Christianity provided purpose and unity to his wide-ranging work as an author, editor, orator, and reformer. As "America's Prophet," Douglass exposed his nation's moral failures and hypocrisies in the hopes of creating a more just society. He admonished his fellow Americans to truly abide by the political and religious ideals they professed to hold most dear. Two hundred years after his birth, Douglass's prophetic voice remains as timely as ever.

Contents:

Introduction : A voice crying in the wilderness of Christian slaveholding America

Part I : The seeking slave, 1818-1838

God and slavery on the eastern shore

Religious awakenings in Baltimore

From the valley of shadows to freedom

Part II : The zealous orator, 1839-1852

The young abolitionist orator

Bearing witness in Great Britain

An antislavery constitution and a righteous violence

Part III : The hopeful prophet, 1853-1895

The crisis of the union

Reconstruction battles over racial and gender equality

At the dark dawn of Jim Crow

Unraveling the mysteries of god's providence and progress

Conclusion : Frederick Douglass is not dead!

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908540-2-5

979-88-908540-3-2

1-4696-3620-4

1-4696-3619-0

OCLC:

1021882320