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A. Primary Sources
A.1 Collections and Abbreviations
- [FDAB] Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, an American Slave ; My Bondage and My Freedom ;
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis Gates (ed.),
(The Library of America 68), New York: Literary Classics of the United
States, 1994.
- The Frederick Douglass Papers, New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1979–
- [FDP1] Series One, Speeches, Debates, and Interviews,
John W. Blassingame and John R. McKivigan (eds.), 5 volumes,
1979–1992. (Scholar)
- [FDP2] Series Two, Autobiographical Writings, John W.
Blassingame (ed.), 3 volumes, 1999–2012.
- [FDP3] Series Three, Correspondence, 2 volumes (3 more
forthcoming), John R. McKivigan (ed.), 2009–. (Scholar)
- [FDSW] Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and
Writings, Philip Sheldon Foner and Yuval Taylor (eds.), (Library
of Black America), Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999.
- [SFD] The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: A Critical
Edition, John R. McKivigan, Julie Husband, and Heather L. Kaufman
(eds.), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
- 1950–1975, The Life and Writings of Frederick
Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner (ed.), 5 volumes, New York:
International Publishers.
- 1950, Early years, 1817–1849, volume 1 (Scholar)
- 1950, Pre-Civil War decade, 1850–1860, volume
2
- 1952, The Civil War, 1861–1865, volume 3
- 1955, Reconstruction and After, volume 4
- 1975, Supplementary volume, 1844–1860, volume
5
- 1976, Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights, Philip
Sheldon Foner (ed.), (Contributions in Afro-American and African
Studies 25), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (Scholar)
- 2016, The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings &
Speeches, Nicholas Buccola (ed.), Indianapolis. IN: Hackett
Publishing Company.
A.2 Works by Douglass
- 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave. Written by Himself, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office. Two
modern editions are
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave, David W. Blight (ed.), second edition, (Bedford Books in
American History), Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press,
2003.
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition, (Open Media
Series), Angela Y. Davis (ed.), San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books,
2010; includes Angela Y. Davis, “Lectures on
Liberation”. (Scholar)
- 1846, “American Slavery, American Religion, and the Free
Church of Scotland”, London, England, 22 May; in SFD:
17–54
- 1848a “An Address to the Colored People of the United
States”, The North Star, 29 September; in FDSW:
117–122 (Scholar)
- 1848b, “The Folly of Racially Exclusive Organization”,
Rochester, New York, 6 March; in FDP1: v.2: 109–112. (Scholar)
- 1850, “At Home Again”, The North Star, 30
May; in FDSW: 156–157 (Scholar)
- 1852, “What To the Slave Is The Fourth of July?”,
Rochester, NY, 5 July; in SFD: 55–92
- 1853a [2015], “The Heroic Slave”, in Autographs
for Freedom, Julia Griffiths (ed.), Boston: John P. Jewett and
Company, 174–239. Reprinted, 2015, as The Heroic Slave: A
Cultural and Critical Edition, Robert S. Levine, John Stauffer,
and John R. McKivigan (eds.), New Haven, CT/London: Yale University
Press. (Scholar)
- 1853b, “The Present Condition And Future Prospects of the
Negro People”, annual meeting of the American and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society, New York City, 11 May; FDSW: 250–259. (Scholar)
- 1854, “The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically
Considered”, Hudson, Ohio, 12 July; in SFD: 116–150
- 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton
& Mulligan. Reprinted David W. Blight (ed.), New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2014. Also in FDAB: 103–452. (Scholar)
- 1857, “The Significance of Emancipation in the West
Indies”, Canandaigua, New York, 3 August.
- 1859, “Capt. John Brown Not Insane”,
Douglass’ Monthly, November; FDSW:
374–375/6. (Scholar)
- 1860a, “The American Constitution and the Slaves”,
Glasgow, Scotland, 26 March; in SFD: 151–185. (Scholar)
- 1860b, “Speech on John Brown”, Tremont Temple, Boston,
3 December; FDSW: 417–421. (Scholar)
- 1860c, “A Plea for Freedom of Speech in Boston”,
Boston, Massachusetts, 9 December; in FDP1 v.3: 420–424. (Scholar)
- 1860d, “The Trials and Triumphs of Self-Made Men”,
Halifax, England: in FDP1 v.3: 289–300. (Scholar)
- 1862, “What Shall be Done with the Slave if
Emancipated”, Douglass’ Monthly, January; FDSW:
470–473. (Scholar)
- 1869a, “Our Composite Nationality”, Boston,
Massachusetts, 7 December; in SFD: 278–303. (Scholar)
- 1869b, “We Welcome the Fifteenth Amendment”, Addresses
delivered to the American Equal Rights Association, New York,
12–13 May; in SFD: 267–277; in FDP1 v.4:
213–219. (Scholar)
- 1876, “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln”,
unveiling of Freedmen’s Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln,
Lincoln Park, Washington, DC, 14 April; FDSW: 616–624. (Scholar)
- 1879, “The Negro Exodus From the Gulf States”, New
York, September: in FDP1 v.4: 510–533. (Scholar)
- 1881/1893, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, new
revised edition, Boston: De Wolfe & Fiske; earlier shorter
version, 1881. Reprinted in FDP2: volume 3, John R. McKivigan (ed.),
2012. (Scholar)
- 1883a, “The Civil Rights Case”, Civil Rights
Mass-Meeting, Lincoln Hall, Washington, DC, 22 October; FDSW:
685–693. (Scholar)
- 1883b, “‘It Moves’, Or the Philosophy of
Reform”, Washington, DC, 20 November; in SFD:
374–400. (Scholar)
- 1884, “Mr. Douglass Interviewed”, Washington
Post, 26 January, page 1; in FDP1 v.5: 147. (Scholar)
- 1888a, “Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous
Fraud”, speech on the occasion of the Twenty-Sixth Anniversary
of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, 16 April;
FDSW: 712–724. (Scholar)
- 1888b, “In Law Free: In Fact, A Slave”, Washington,
DC, 16 May: FDP1 v.5: 357–373. (Scholar)
- 1893, “Self-Made Men”, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March;
in SFD: 414–453. (Scholar)
- 1894, “Lessons of the Hour”, Washington, DC, 9
January; in SFD: 454–497.
B. Secondary Literature
- Alfaro, Ange-Marie Hancock, 2018, “Black Masculinity
Achieves Nothing without Restorative Care: An Intersectional
Rearticulation of Frederick Douglass”, in Roberts 2018:
236–251 (ch. 7). (Scholar)
- Appiah, Anthony, 1985 [1986], “The Uncompleted Argument: Du
Bois and the Illusion of Race”, Critical Inquiry,
12(1): 21–37. Reprinted in “Race”, Writing and
Difference, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.), Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 21–37. (Scholar)
- Bernasconi, Robert, 1991, “The Constitution Of The People:
Frederick Douglass And The Dred Scott Decision”, Cardozo Law
Review, 13(4): 1281–1296. (Scholar)
- Blight, David W., 1989, Frederick Douglass’ Civil War:
Keeping Faith in Jubilee, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State
University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2018, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of
Freedom, New York: Simon & Schuster. (Scholar)
- Boxill, Bernard R., 1976, “Self-Respect and Protest”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 6(1): 58–69. (Scholar)
- –––, 1992a, Blacks and Social Justice, revised edition, Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
- –––, 1992b, “Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy”, Philosophical Forum, 24: 119–135. (Scholar)
- –––, 1997, “The Fight with Covey”, in Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, Lewis R. Gordon (ed.), New York: Routledge, 273–290. (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, “Radical Implications of
Locke’s Moral Theory: The Views of Frederick Douglass”, in
Lott 1998: 29–48. (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, “Douglass against the
Emigrationists”, in Lawson and Kirkland 1999: 21–49 (ch.
1). (Scholar)
- Bromell, Nicholas Knowles, 2021, The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Scholar)
- Brotz, Howard, 1992, African-American Social and Political
Thought, 1850–1920, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Publishers. (Scholar)
- Buccola, Nicholas, 2012, The Political Thought of Frederick
Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty, New York: New York
University Press. (Scholar)
- Burns, Robert, 1795, “A Man’s a Man for a’
That”. Collected in multiple places including in Burns:
Poems, Gerard Carruthers (ed.), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007,
131–132.[Burn 1795 available online] (Scholar)
- Combe, George, 1828, The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects, Edinburgh. (Scholar)
- Cooper, Anna J., 1998, The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper:
Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers,
and Letters, Charles C. Lemert and Esme Bhan (eds.), Lanham, MD:
Rowan & Littlefield. (Scholar)
- Cruse, Harold, 1967 [2005], The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, New York: Morrow. Reprinted as The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership, (New York Review Books Classics), New York: New York Review Books, 2005. (Scholar)
- Davis, Angela Y., 1971, Lectures on Liberation, New York:
New York Committee to Free Angela Davis. Reprinted in the 2010 edition
of Douglass 1845 which she edited. (Scholar)
- –––, 1971 [1983], “Unfinished Lecture on
Liberation-II”, in Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of
Afro-American Philosophy from 1917, Leonard Harris (ed.),
Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 130–136. (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, “From the Prison of Slavery to
the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease
System”, in Lawson and Kirkland 1999: 339–362 (ch.
12). (Scholar)
- –––, 2005, Abolition Democracy: Beyond
Empire, Prisons, and Torture, New York: Seven Stories Press. (Scholar)
- Delany, Martin Robison, 1852 [1968], The Condition, Elevation,
Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States.
Politically Considered, Philadelphia. Reprinted, 1968, (American
Negro, His History and Literature), New York: Arno Press. (Scholar)
- Delbanco, Andrew, 2018, The War before the War: Fugitive
Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution
to the Civil War, New York: Penguin Press. (Scholar)
- Du Bois, W.E.B. 1897 [1992], “The Conservation of
Races”, speech to the American Negro Academy, March 1897.
Reprinted in Brotz 1992: 483–492. (Scholar)
- –––, 1903 [1999], The Souls of Black Folk, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co. Reprinted, 1999, Henry Louis Gates and Terri Hume Oliver (eds), (A Norton Critical Edition) New York: W.W. Norton. (Scholar)
- –––, 1909, John Brown, (American Crisis Biographies), Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs & company. (Scholar)
- –––, 1935 [2021], Black Reconstruction: An
Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the
Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880, New
York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. Reprinted, 2021, Eric Foner and Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., (eds.), (Library of America 350), New York, NY: The
Library of America. (Scholar)
- DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1978, Feminism and Suffrage: The
Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America,
1848–1869, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Dworkin, Ronald, 2006, Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate, Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1850 [2004], Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. Reprinted, 2004, Brenda Wineapple (ed.), New York: Modern Library. (Scholar)
- Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1964, Frederick Douglass: A
Biography, New York: Citadel Press. (Scholar)
- Fredrickson, George M., 2002, Racism: A Short History,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Giddings, Paula, 2008, Ida: A Sword among Lions: Ida B. Wells
and the Campaign against Lynching, New York: Amistad. (Scholar)
- Gooding-Williams, Robert, 2009, In the Shadow of Du Bois:
Afro-Modern Political Thought in America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press. (Scholar)
- Gordon, Ann D. (ed.), 2000, The Selected Papers of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume 2: Against an Aristocracy of
Sex, 1866 to 1873, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press. (Scholar)
- Gordon, Lewis R. 1999. “Douglass as an
Existentialist”, in Lawson and Kirkland 1999: 207–226 (ch.
8). (Scholar)
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1651/1668 [1994], Leviathan, London; revised Latin edition, 1668. Reprinted as Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668, E. M. Curley (ed.), Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Scholar)
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1785 [1999], Notes on the State of Virginia, Paris; reprinted, 1999, Frank Shuffelton (ed.), New York: Penguin Books. (Scholar)
- Lawson, Bill E. and Frank M. Kirkland (eds.), 1999, Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Readers), Malden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. (Scholar)
- Lee, Maurice S. (ed.), 2009, The Cambridge Companion to
Frederick Douglass (Cambridge Companions to American Studies),
Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.
doi:10.1017/ccol9780521889230 (Scholar)
- Levine, Robert S., 1997, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass,
and the Politics of Representative Identity, Chapel Hill, NC: The
University of North Carolina Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2016, The Lives of Frederick
Douglass, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Lott, Tommy Lee (ed.), 1998, Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. (Scholar)
- Martin, Waldo E., Jr., 1984, The Mind of Frederick
Douglass, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina
Press. (Scholar)
- Mazzini, Giuseppe [Joseph], 1860 [1862], Doveri dell’uomo, London; translated as The Duties of Man, London: Chapman & Hall, 1862; re-translated by Ella Noyes in The Duties of Man And Other Essays, introduced by Thomas Jones, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1907. (Scholar)
- McFeely, William S., 1991, Frederick Douglass, New York:
Norton. (Scholar)
- McGary, Howard, 1999a, “Douglass on Racial Assimilation and
Racial Institutions”, in Lawson and Kirkland 1999: 50–63
(ch. 2). (Scholar)
- –––, 1999b, Race and Social Justice, Malden, MA: Blackwell. (Scholar)
- McGary, Howard and Bill E. Lawson, 1992, Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery, (Blacks in the Diaspora), Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
- Mills, Charles W., 1997, The Racial Contract, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, “Whose Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass and ‘Original Intent’”, in Lawson
and Kirkland 1999: 100–142 (ch. 5). (Scholar)
- Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1978, The Golden Age of Black
Nationalism, 1850–1925, Hamden, CT: Archon Books. (Scholar)
- Myers, Peter C., 2008, Frederick Douglass: Race and the
Rebirth of American Liberalism, (American Political Thought),
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. (Scholar)
- Nott, Josiah C. and George R. Gliddon, 1854, Types of Mankind
or, Ethnological Researches: Based upon the Ancient Monuments,
Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of Races, and upon Their Natural,
Geographical, Philological and Biblical History, Illustrated by
Selections from the Inedited Papers of Samuel George Morton and by
Additional Contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S.
Patterson, Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, Grambo &
co. (Scholar)
- Outlaw, Lucius, 1992 [1996], “Against the Grain of
Modernity: The Politics of Difference and the Conservation
of ‘Race’”, Man and World,
25(3–4): 443–468. Reprinted in his On Race and
Philosophy, New York: Routledge, 1996, 135–157.
doi:10.1007/BF01252429 (Scholar)
- Patterson, Orlando, 1982, Slavery and Social Death: A
Comparative Study, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Pettit, Philip, 1997, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government, Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/0198296428.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Pittman, John, 1999, “Douglass’s Assimilationism and
Antislavery”, in Lawson and Kirkland 1999: 64–81 (ch.
3). (Scholar)
- Preston, Dickson J., 1980, Young Frederick Douglass: The
Maryland Years, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press. (Scholar)
- Roberts, Neil (ed.), 2018, A Political Companion to Frederick
Douglass, (Political Companions to Great American Authors),
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. (Scholar)
- Root, Damon, 2020, A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and
the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution, Lincoln, NE: Potomac
Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. (Scholar)
- Schrader, David E., 1999, “Natural Law in the Constitutional
Thought of Frederick Douglass”, in Lawson and Kirkland 1999:
85–99 (ch. 4). (Scholar)
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1868 [2000], “Manhood
Suffrage”, 24 December 1868. Collected in A. Gordon 2000:
194–199 (§71). (Scholar)
- –––, 1869 [2000], “Sixteenth
Amendment”, 29 April 1869. Collected in A. Gordon 2000:
236–238 (§84). (Scholar)
- Sinha, Manisha, 2016, The Slave’s Cause: A History of
Abolition, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
- Sundquist, Eric J. (ed.), 1990, Frederick Douglass: New
Literary and Historical Essays (Cambridge Studies in American
Literature and Culture), Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University
Press. (Scholar)
- Sundstrom, Ronald Robles, 2003, “Douglass & Du
Bois’s Der Schwarze Volksgeist”, in Race and
Racism in Continental Philosophy, Robert Bernasconi (ed.),
Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 32–53 (ch. 3). (Scholar)
- –––, 2008, The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice, (SUNY Series, Philosophy and Race), Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
- Taylor, Paul C., 2022, Race: A Philosophical Introduction, third revised edition, Cambridge: Polity Press. (Scholar)
- Van Wyhe, John, 2004, Combe’s “Constitution of
Man”, and Nineteenth-Century Responses, Bristol:
Thoemmes Continuum. (Scholar)
- Wallace, Maurice O., 2009, “Violence, Manhood, and War in
Douglass”, in Lee 2009: 73–88.
doi:10.1017/ccol9780521889230.006 (Scholar)
- –––, 2014, “‘I Rose a
Freeman’: Power, Property, and the Performance of Manhood in
Slave Narratives”, in The Oxford Handbook of the African
American Slave Narrative, John Ernest (ed.), New York: Oxford
University Press, 260–276. (Scholar)
- Washington, Booker T., 1907, Frederick Douglass,
(American Crisis Biographies), Philadelphia/London: G.W. Jacobs &
Company. (Scholar)
- Waldron, Jeremy, 2012, Dignity, Rank, and Rights, Meir Dan-Cohen (ed.), (Berkeley Tanner Lectures), New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199915439.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, One Another’s Equals: The
Basis of Human Equality, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 2014, The Light of Truth: Writings of
an Anti-Lynching Crusader, Mia Bay and Henry Louis Jr. Gates
(eds.), (Penguin Classics), New York: Penguin Books. (Scholar)
- Willett, Cynthia, 1998, “The Master-Slave Dialectic: Hegel
vs. Douglass”, in Lott 1998: 151–170. (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, “The Genealogy of Freedom in
Slave America: Frederick Douglass”, in her The Soul of
Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris, Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 188–202 (ch. 8). (Scholar)
- Yancy, George, 2008, “Exploring the Serious World
of Whiteness through Frederick Douglass’s Autobiographical
Reflections”, in his Black Bodies, White Gazes: The
Continuing Significance of Race, Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 141–181. (Scholar)
- Yaure, Philip, 2018, “Deliberation and Emancipation: Some Critical Remarks”, Ethics, 129(1): 8–38. doi:10.1086/698731 (Scholar)