Revolutionary fictions and activist labor: looking for Douglass and Melville together / John Ernest -- Fugitive justice: Douglass, Shaw, Melville / Robert K. Wallace -- Cheer and gloom: Douglass and Melville on slave dance and music / Sterling Stuckey -- Douglass, Melville, and the moral economies of American authorship / Susan M. Ryan -- Volcanoes and meteors: Douglass, Melville, and the poetics of insurrection / William Gleason -- Interracial friendship and the aesthetics of freedom / John Stauffer -- Political theology in Douglass and Melville / Steven Mailloux -- The ethics of impertinence: Douglass and Melville on England / Elisa Tamarkin -- The ends of enchantment: Douglass, Melville, and U.S. expansionism in the Americas / Rodrigo Lazo -- Fraternal melancholies: manhood and the limits of sympathy in Douglass and Melville / Elizabeth Barnes -- Douglass's and Melville's "alphabets of the blind" / Hester Blum -- A view from the closet: reconcilable differences in Douglass and Melville / David Van Leer -- Riveted to the wall: covetous fathers, devoted sons, and the patriarchal pieties of Melville and Douglass / Maurice Wallace -- Fahrenheit 1861: cross patriotism in Melville and Douglass / Russ Castronovo, Dana D. Nelson -- White fratricide, black liberation: Melville, Douglass, and Civil War memory / Carolyn L. Karcher -- Douglass, Melville, and the lynching of Billy Budd / Gregory Jay -- Melville, Douglass, the Civil War, pragmatism / Maurice S. Lee -- 1855/1955: from antislavery to civil rights / Eric J. Sundquist.
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