Frederick Douglass, Republican Benjamin T. Lynerd

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynerd, Benjamin T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Political and social views.

Douglass, Frederick.

African American abolitionists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

This text analyses the political thought of Frederick Douglass within the larger Black Republican tradition of the nineteenth century. It argues that Douglass's overriding goal during five decades of public life was to cultivate a political order across the western hemisphere that would ensure self-determination as a universal right. To this end, the book examines Douglass's views on national sovereignty, democratic citizenship, civic virtue, and economic independence. Douglass's expansive, though largely unrealized, visions for emancipation and integration offers a constructive framework for the pursuit of racial justice today. This is because Douglass builds his philosophy on a robust conception of freedom as nondomination, for individuals and for society at large, and, crucially, thinks through what it would take to overcome systemic forms of domination

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197853481

019785348X

OCLC:

1587118842

Publisher Number:

CIPO000381355

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