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Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader

Bill Lawson (Editor), Frank Kirkland (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-20577-7
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426 pages
January 1999, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Introduction.

Part I: Racial Assimilation And Emigration:.

1. Douglass against the Emigrationists: Bernard R. Boxill.

2. Douglass on Racial Assimilation and Racial Institutions: Howard McGary.

3. Douglass's Assimilationism: John P. Pittman.

Part II: Natural Law And American's Founding Documents:.

4. Natural Law in the Constitutional Thought of Frederick Douglass: David E. Schrader.

5. Whose Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass and 'Original Intent': Charles W. Mills.

Part III: Enlightenment And Enslavement:.

6. The Claims of Frederick Douglass Philosophically Considered: Roderick M. Stewart.

7. The Grammar of Civilization: Douglass and Crummell on Doing Things with Words: Stephen L. Thompson.

Part IV: Moral Suasion And Rebellion:.

8. Douglass as an Existentialist: Lewis R. Gordon.

9. Honor of Insurrection or A short Story about why John Brown (with David Walker's Spirit) was Right and Frederick Douglass (with Benjamin Banneker's Spirit) was Wrong: Leonard Harris.

10. Enslavement, Moral Suasion, and Struggles for Recognition: Frederick Douglass's Answer to the question - 'What is Enlightenment?': Frank M. Kirkland.

Part V: Incarcerating And Lynching Black Bodies:.

11. Douglass on the Myth of the Black Rapist: Tommy L. Lott.

12. From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prisons: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Release System: Angela Y. Davis.

Part VI: Douglass (1818-95): One Hundred Years Later:.

13. Frederick Douglass and Racial Progress: Does Race Matter at the Bottom of the Well?: Bill E. Lawson.

Selected Bibliography.

Index.

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