The mind of Frederick Douglass /
Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies over the years. This, howev...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[1984]
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| Series: | Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
UNC Press law publications. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Part One: The Shape of a Life. 1. The formative years and beyond
- 2. Abolitionism: the travail of a "Great Life's Work"
- 3. The politics of a race leader
- 4. Humanism, race, and leadership
- Part Two: Social Reform. 5. The ideology of white supremacy
- 6. Feminism, race, and social reform
- 7. The philosophy and pursuit of social reform
- Part Three: National identity, culture, and science. 8. A composite American nationality
- 9. Ethnology and equality
- Part Four. The autobiographical Douglass. 10. Self-made man, self-conscious Hero.
