Introduction: political thought in the shadow of Douglass / Neil Roberts -- Part I. Slavery, Freedom, Agency. 1. Masters, mistresses, slaves, and the antinomies of modernity / Paul Gilroy -- 2. The fight with Covey / Bernard R. Boxill -- 3. Frederick Douglass's master-slave dialectic / Margaret Kohn -- 4. Lectures on liberation / Angela Y. Davis -- 5. Douglass's declarations of independence and practices of politics / Robert Gooding-Williams -- Part II. Judgment, Intersectionality, Human Nature. 6. Douglass and political judgment: the post-Reconstruction years / Jack Turner -- 7. Black masculinity achieves nothing without restorative care: an intersectional rearticulation of Frederick Douglass / Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro -- 8. "The human heart is a seat of constant war": Frederick Douglass on human nature / Nicholas Buccola -- Part III. Law. 9. Seed-time and harvest-time: natural law and rational hopefulness in Frederick Douglass's life and times / Peter C. Myers -- 10. The affect of God's law / Vincent Lloyd -- 11. Law-breaker: Frederick Douglass and the rule of law / Anne Norton -- Part IV. Rhetoric, Citizenship, Democracy. 12. Frederick Douglass / Herbert J. Storing -- 13. Staging dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the people" / Jason Frank -- 14. "A blending of opposite qualities": Frederick Douglass and the demands of democratic citizenship / Nick Bromell.
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