The political thought of Frederick Douglass in pursuit of American liberty /

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Main Author: Buccola, Nicholas
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • The facts and the philosophy : Frederick Douglass as political thinker
  • "Every man is himself and belongs to himself" : slavery and self-ownership as the
  • Foundations of Douglass's liberalism
  • From slavery to liberty and equality : Douglass's liberal democratic politics
  • "Each for all and all for each" : Douglass's case for mutual responsibility
  • "Friends of freedom" : reformers, self-made men, and the moral ecology of freedom
  • "Man is neither wood nor stone" : top-down moral education in Douglass's liberalism
  • Conclusion : Frederick Douglass in the American mind.