The political thought of Frederick Douglass
Subtitle: in pursuit of American liberty
By: Nicholas Buccola
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814787113; 9780814725405; 9780814725412
Subjects: Philosophy; Liberty; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The facts and the philosophy : Frederick Douglass as political thinker; title: "Every man is himself and belongs to himself" : slavery and self-ownership as the; title: Foundations of Douglass's liberalism; title: From slavery to liberty and equality : Douglass's liberal democratic politics; title: "Each for all and all for each" : Douglass's case for mutual responsibility; title: "Friends of freedom" : reformers, self-made men, and the moral ecology of freedom; title: "Man is neither wood nor stone" : top-down moral education in Douglass's liberalism; title: Conclusion : Frederick Douglass in the American mind.