| Contents |
"The Thing Looked Absurd!" -- "To Become a Colored Man": The Emergence of Douglass's Political Philosophy in the Antebellum Black Public Sphere -- "A Fixed Principle of Honesty": The Method and Style of Douglass's Political Thinking -- "Everything in This World Is Relative": Douglass's Positions on Black Emigration and Violence -- "A Living Root, Not a Twig Broken Off": Douglass's Political Thought and His Constitutionalism -- Political Awakening and Resistant Vulnerability in My Bondage and My Freedom -- "Nothing Less Than a Radical Revolution": Combating Antiblack Racism after the Civil War -- "Strange, Mysterious, and Indescribable": Douglass's Fugitive Political Philosophy with Soul. |
| Abstract |
"The Powers of Dignity uncovers and analyzes the distinctively Black political philosophy that Frederick Douglass forged from his experience as an enslaved and later nominally free black man. Because he unwaveringly viewed politics and democracy from the standpoint of a racialized black subject, his philosophy both challenges and potentially transforms the Anglo-Continental tradition of political thought"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Bromell, Nicholas Knowles The powers of dignity Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. 9781478012801 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020024547 |
| ISBN | 9781478010227 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1478010223 |
| ISBN | 9781478011262 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1478011262 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook other) |
