The Cambridge companion to Frederick Douglass
By: edited by Maurice S. Lee.
Contributors: Lee, Maurice S.
Series: Cambridge companions to American studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521889230; 9780521717878
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895 -- Political and social views; Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895 -- Knowledge and learning; Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895 -- Influence; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Douglass's self-making and the culture of abolitionism / John Stauffer; title: Identity in the autobiographies / Robert S. Levine; title: Douglass as orator and editor / Sarah Meer; title: Crisis and faith in Douglass's work / John Ernest; title: Violence, manhood, and war in Douglass / Maurice O. Wallace; title: Human law and higher law / Gregg Crane; title: Sentimental Douglass / Arthur Riss; title: Douglass among the Romantics / Bill E. Lawson; title: Douglass's Black Atlantic: Britain, Europe, Egypt / Paul Giles; title: Douglass's Black Atlantic: the Caribbean / Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo; title: Douglass, ideological slavery, and postbellum racial politics / Gene Andrew Jarrett; title: Born in slavery: echoes and legacies / Valerie Smith.