A political companion to Frederick Douglass /edited by Neil Roberts.
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: political thought in the shadow of Douglass / Slavery, freedom, agency. Masters, mistresses, slaves, and the antinomies of modernity / The fight with Covey / Frederick Douglass's master-slave dialectic / Lectures on liberation / Douglass's declarations of independence and practices of politics / Judgment, intersectionality, human nature. Douglass and political judgment: the post-Reconstruction years / Black masculinity achieves nothing without restorative care: an intersectional rearticulation of Frederick Douglass / "The human heart is a seat of constant war": Frederick Douglass on human nature / Seed-time and harvest-time: natural law and rational hopefulness in Frederick Douglass's life and times / The affect of God's law / Law-breaker: Frederick Douglass and the rule of law / Rhetoric, citizenship, democracy. Frederick Douglass / Staging dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the people" / "A blending of opposite qualities": Frederick Douglass and the demands of democratic citizenship / Neil Roberts -- Paul Gilroy -- Bernard R. Boxill -- Margaret Kohn -- Angela Y. Davis -- Robert Gooding-Williams -- Jack Turner -- Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro -- Nicholas Buccola -- Peter C. Myers -- Vincent Lloyd -- Anne Norton -- Herbert J. Storing -- Jason Frank -- Nick Bromell.
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 --Political and social views. Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 --Influence.
African American abolitionists--Biography. Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.