The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass

by Edited by Maurice S. Lee

• ISBN13: 9780521889230
• ISBN10: 0521889235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Frederick Douglass was born a slave and lived to become a best-selling author and a leading figure of the abolitionist movement. A powerful orator and writer, Douglass provided a unique voice advocating human rights and freedom across the nineteenth century, and remains an important figure in the fight against racial injustice. This Companion, designed for students of American history and literature, includes essays from prominent scholars working in a range of disciplines. Key topics in Douglass studies - his abolitionist work, oratory, and autobiographical writings are covered in depth, and new perspectives on religion, jurisprudence, the Civil War, romanticism, sentimentality, the Black press, and transatlanticism are offered. Accessible in style, and representing new approaches in literary and African-American studies, this book is both a lucid introduction and a contribution to existing scholarship.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Chronology of Douglass's Life	p. xiii
Citations	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Douglass's Self-Making and the Culture of Abolitionism	p. 13
Identity in the Autobiographies	p. 31
Douglass as Orator and Editor	p. 46
Crisis and Faith in Douglass's Work	p. 60
Violence, Manhood, and War in Douglass	p. 73
Human Law and Higher Law	p. 89
Sentimental Douglass	p. 103
Douglass among the Romantics	p. 118
Douglass's Black Atlantic: Britain, Europe, Egypt	p. 132
Douglass's Black Atlantic: The Caribbean	p. 146
Douglass, Ideological Slavery, and Postbellum Racial Politics	p. 160
Born into Slavery: Echoes and Legacies	p. 173
Guide to Further Reading	p. 183
Index	p. 186
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