The Mind of Frederick Douglass - Couverture souple

Martin Jr., Waldo E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080784148X ISBN 13 : 9780807841488

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Martin Jr Waldo E

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies over the years. This, however, is the first full-scale study of the origins, contours, development, and significance of Douglass's thought. Brilliant and to a large degree self-taught, Douglass personified intellectual activism; he possessed a sincere concern for the uses and consequences of ideas. Both his people's struggle for liberation and his individual experiences, which he envisioned as symbolizing that struggle, provided the basis and structure for his intellectual maturation. As a representative American, he internalized and, thus, reflected major currents in the contemporary American mind. As a representative Afro-American, he revealed in his thinking the deep-seated influence of race on Euro-American, Afro-American, or, broadly conceived, American consciousness. He sought to resolve in his thinking the dynamic tension between his identities as a black and as an American.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 080784148X
• ISBN 13: 9780807841488
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346