Michaël Roy, ed., Frederick Douglass in Context by Nick Bromell

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Nick Bromell, The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass by Michaël Roy

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The Present and the Past of American Liberalism In Light of Slavery and Racial Injustice by E. G. Ponomareva

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Aux frontières du politique et du religieux by Frédéric Sylvanise

“…Ned, fils adoptif de Jane Pittman, se rebaptise Professor Douglass en hommage au leader abolitionniste Frederick Douglass. S’il est fondamentalement laïc (il est instituteur), le texte lui confère néanmoins une dimension religieuse, notamment dans le chapitre intitulé « The Sermon at the River » , qui renvoie à la fois à Moïse (le fleuve) et à Jésus (le sermon sur la montagne). …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…It was the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 which showed William Wells Brown (and Frederick Douglass) that fiction might serve the abolitionist cause as much as a true narrative faithfully attested.In 1853, with the publication of his novel Clotel, William Wells Brown took African American narrative in a direction that was new and dangerous. …”
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