"Ironic tenacity" : Frederick Douglass's seizure of the dialectic / Sterling Stuckey -- From Wheatley to Douglass : the politics of displacement / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Writing freely? : Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing / Wilson J. Moses -- Faith, doubt, and apostasy : evidence of things unseen in Frederick Douglass's Narrative / Donald B. Gibson -- Franklinian Douglass : the Afro-American as representative man / Rafia Zafar -- Reading slavery : the anxiety of ethnicity in Douglass's Narrative / David Van Leer -- The punishment of Esther : Frederick Douglass and the construction of the feminine / Jenny Franchot -- Race, violence, and manhood : the masculine ideal in Frederick Douglass's "The heroic slave" / Richard Yarborough -- "We hold these truths to be self-evident" : the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's journalism / Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Carla L. Peterson -- The Frederick Douglass-Gerrit Smith friendship and political abolitionism in the 1850s / John R. McKivigan -- The shadow of slavery : Frederick Douglass, the savage South, and the next generation / Wayne Mixon -- Frederick Douglass's Life and times : progressive rhetoric and the problem of constituency / Kenneth W. Warren -- Images of Frederick Douglass in the Afro-American mind : the recent black freedom struggle / Waldo E. Martin, Jr. |