Author:
Buccola, Nicholas.
Imprint:New York ; London : New York University Press, c2012.
Descriptionx, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:The facts and the philosophy : Frederick Douglass as political thinker -- "Every man is himself and belongs to himself" : slavery and self-ownership as the -- Foundations of Douglass's liberalism -- From slavery to liberty and equality : Douglass's liberal democratic politics -- "Each for all and all for each" : Douglass's case for mutual responsibility -- "Friends of freedom" : reformers, self-made men, and the moral ecology of freedom -- "Man is neither wood nor stone" : top-down moral education in Douglass's liberalism -- Conclusion : Frederick Douglass in the American mind.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-199, 201-207) and index.
