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Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "American Political Science Review"

DOI: 10.1017/s0003055424001461

Abstract: This article draws from Frederick Douglass’s antebellum and wartime writings to reconstruct his approach to natural rights. Douglass admired many elements of the Enlightenment legacy. Yet in the same motion that he echoes European and… read more here.

Keywords: natural rights; frederick douglass; douglass political; political theory ... See more keywords
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African Americans in U.S. foreign policy: from the era of Frederick Douglass to the age of Obama

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recommendations! Published in 2017 at "Ethnic and Racial Studies"

DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1413204

Abstract: projects as shaped by a pragmatic viewpoint, one that does not result in a paradox since it confines itself to using a political and legal framework for addressing race, steering clear from a scientific perspective.… read more here.

Keywords: era frederick; policy era; frederick douglass; african americans ... See more keywords
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Frederick Douglass’s Prophecies of Abolition: World Literature and the Black Romantic Man of Letters

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "European Romantic Review"

DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2018.1487420

Abstract: ABSTRACT Frederick Douglass’s citations of British Romantic poets have recently attracted the attention of scholars working in two modes of Black Studies: transatlantic literary history and political theory. In this essay, I take as my… read more here.

Keywords: literature; frederick douglass; douglass; world literature ... See more keywords

Frederick Douglass’s Architectural Ventriloquism: Constructing a Black Internationalism at the 1893 Columbian Exposition

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "Architecture and Culture"

DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2025.2495460

Abstract: Abstract This paper explores the double role the Haitian Pavilion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World’s Fair) played in different imaginations of Columbian development and the consistency of each… read more here.

Keywords: frederick douglass; douglass architectural; columbian exposition; black internationalism ... See more keywords

Mapping Taste: Urban Modernities from the Tatler and Spectator to Frederick Douglass' Paper

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recommendations! Published in 2020 at "American Literary History"

DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajaa028

Abstract: Abstract:This essay, which is part of a larger book project, reflects my interest in rethinking concepts of Black modernity and speculating on its possible manifestations in different forms at different historical moments. Specifically, I posit… read more here.

Keywords: taste; modernity; frederick douglass; spectator ... See more keywords
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NOBODY KNOWS: OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE IN THE NARRATIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND OLAUDAH EQUIANO

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recommendations! Published in 2020 at "Interfaces"

DOI: 10.5935/2179-0027.20200079

Abstract: This article intends to analyze the autobiographic narratives by Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano, two important slave narratives, Equiano was born free in Africa, was captured and fled from slavery to live in London; and… read more here.

Keywords: olaudah equiano; narratives frederick; frederick douglass; nobody knows ... See more keywords