Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism

by Peter C. Myers

Book Overview

For Frederick Douglass, the iconic nineteenth-century slave and abolitionist, the foundations for his arguments in support of racial equality rested on natural rights and natural law-and the bold proclamation of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal. But because many Americans never observed this principle--and in Douglass's day even renounced it--he made it his life's work to move the nation toward this vision of a more noble...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700615725
• ISBN13: 9780700615728
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"