Untimely democracy : the politics of progress after slavery /
Laski, Gregory,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Democracy's progress -- On the possibility of democracy in the present-past : reading Thomas Jefferson and W.E.B. Du Bois in the times of slavery and freedom -- Narrating the present-past in Frederick Douglass's Life and times -- Making reparation, or, How to count the wrongs of slavery -- Failed futures : of prophecy and pessimism at the nadir -- Pauline E. Hopkins's untimely democracy : stasis, agitation, agency -- Epilogue: Democracy's plunges.
American literature
American literature
Progress in literature.
Democracy in literature.
Slavery in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American literature.
American literature
Democracy in literature.
Progress in literature.
Slavery in literature.