A political companion to Frederick Douglass /
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Doug...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2018]
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| Series: | Political companions to great American authors.
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Table of 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.