The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

by Nick Bromell

In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had "elaborated a political philosophy" from his own "slave experience." Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti-Black racism. To remedy this deficiency, Douglass deployed insights from his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478010223
• ISBN13: 9781478010227
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"