The Powers of Dignity : The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass /

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"Nick Bromell examines how Frederick Douglass forged a distinctively black political philosophy out of his experiences as an enslaved and later nominally free man in ways that challenge Anglo-Continental traditions of political thought."--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bromell, Nicholas Knowles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Philosophy.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Political and social views.
Race relations.
Political and social views.
Philosophy.
Antislavery movements.
African American abolitionists.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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