Frederick Douglass

Introduction; 1. 'Ironic tenacity': Frederick Douglass' seizure of the dialectic Sterling Stuckey; 2. From Wheatley to Douglass: the politics of displacement Henry Louis Gates, Jr; 3. Writing freely? Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing Wilson J. Moses; 4. Faith, doubt, and apostasy: evidence of things unseen in Frederick Douglass' narrative Donald B. Gibson; 5. Franklinian Douglass: the Afro-American as representative man Rafia Zafar; 6. Reading slavery: the anxiety of ethnicity in Douglass' narrative David Van Leer; 7. The punishment of Esther: Frederick Douglass and the construction of the feminine Jenny Franchot; 8. Race, violence, and manhood: the masculine ideal in Frederick Douglass' 'The Heroic Slave' Richard Yarborough; 9. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident': the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass' journalism Shelley Fisher and Carla L. Peterson; 10. The Frederick Douglass-Gerrit Smith friendship and political abolitionism in the 1850s John R. McKivigan; 11. The shadow of slavery: Frederick Douglass, the savage South, and the next generation Wayne Mixon; 12. Frederick Douglass' life and times: progressive rhetoric and the problem of constituency Kenneth W. Warren; 13. Images of Frederick Douglass in the Afro-American mind: the recent Black freedom struggle Waldo E. Martin, Jr.; Selected bibliography; Notes on contributors; Index.