Frederick Douglass
Subtitle: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Readers)
Contributors: Bill E. Lawson (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780631205777
First sentence: Derrick Bell's allegory of the USA making a lucrative deal with "Space Traders" to carry off its black population recapitulates an old American fantasy of ridding the country of black people; proposals to send "Negroes back to Africa," had begun to surface as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century.