Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity

by Robert S. Levine

Book Overview

The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nationalism, illuminating each man's influence on the other's political vision...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846333
• ISBN13: 9780807846339
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher