A political companion to Frederick Douglass / edited by Neil Roberts.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 439-450) and index.
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LCCN 2017060706
ISBN9780813175621 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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