Frederick Douglass, Republican.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynerd, Benjamin T.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Frederick Douglass, Republican explains how Douglass understood what it means to be free, and, more importantly, what it means to become free. Douglass was both a Republican in his party affiliation and a republican in his political philosophy. This book looks specifically at the geopolitical, constitutional, economic, and moral conditions that he believed to be necessary for individuals and nations to experience liberty in its fullest dimensions. These insights are vital to recover, as so much of Douglass's vision for emancipating Americans from the conditions of domination that the slave system created remains unfulfilled today.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Recovering a Framework

I. "I Shall Not Be Moved

II. The Case for a Republican Douglass

III. Black Republicanism Before Douglass

IV. Douglass's Intellectual and Political Journey

V. Plan of the Book

2 Sovereignty and Race in the Americas

I. Black Republicans and Geopolitics

II. Douglass's Dominican Project

1. Underdevelopment

2. Native Virtues

3. Advantages of Annexation for Santo Domingo

4. Advantages of Annexation for the United States

III. An Epiphany in Port-au-Prince

IV. Black Sovereignty and the World's Fair

3 Integrating and Democratizing the American Polity

I. Douglass Versus the Emigrationists

II. Remaking the Republic: Structural Reforms

1. Descriptive Representation

2."Complete and Perfect Citizenship

3. The Infrastructures of Civic Trust

IV. A Republican Constitution

4 Civic Virtue and Racial Liberation

I. Virtue Discourse and Race in the Early Republic

II. Douglass on the Disciplines of Self-Mastery

III. Righteous Defiance

1. Sabotaging the Plantation

2. Flight

3. Violence

IV. The Public Virtues

1. Military Service

2. The Deliberative Virtues

5 The Path to Emancipation

I. Tiberius and the Black Press

II. Slavery as Domination

III. Toward Independence: A Structural Transformation

1. Cooperative Industry

2. Land Reform and the Protection of Domestic Agriculture

3. Public Education

4. Equal Opportunity

6 Liberty Reframed

I. Postbellum Black Politics and the Causes of Optimism

II. The Obstacles to Emancipation

III. Domination, Reconstructed

IV. A Shift in the Rhetoric of Freedom

V. The Disintegration of Black Republicanism

1. Pan-African Nationalism

2. Black Socialism

3. Black Liberalism.

7 Epilogue

I. On Being Moved

II. A Framework Recovered

III. A Framework Applied

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780197853481

OCLC:

1587118842