Frederick Douglass - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Frederick Douglass (c 1817–1895) is a central figure in U S and African American history [1] He was born into slavery circa 1817; his mother was an enslaved black woman, while his father was reputed to be his white master Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838 and rose to become a principal leader and spokesperson for the U S Abolition movement [2] He would eventually develop into a
Frederick Douglass - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 5 New students of Douglass will find convenient access to many of Douglass's important articles, letters, and speeches in the shorter collection, Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, and Yuval Taylor, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings (1999)
Frederick Douglass - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Notes to Frederick Douglass 1 For excellent biographies of Frederick Douglass, see Waldo E Martin’s The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1984), and David W Blight’s Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989) and his Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018) See note 4, infra 2
Frederick Douglass - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Notes to Frederick Douglass 1 For an excellent biography of Frederick Douglass, see Waldo E Martin, The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1984) See also Peter Myers’s study of Douglass’s politics and its relation to American liberalism (Myers 2008) See also, Maurice S Lee, The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (2009)
Frederick Douglass - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, edited by Bill E Lawson and Frank M Kirkland (1999), is a valuable guide to lines of inquiry about Douglass, and the debates he inspired, within philosophy in the United States
Frederick Douglass - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, edited by Bill E Lawson and Frank M Kirkland (1999), is a valuable guide to lines of inquiry about Douglass, and the debates he inspired, within philosophy in the United States
Transcendentalism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Frederick Douglass spoke in Concord at Thoreau’s invitation, and was on the dais in Concord in August 1844, when Emerson delivered his emancipation address, where he states: “The Black Man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization” (Wirzbicki, 95; A, 31)
W. E. B. Du Bois - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Specifically, he emphasizes Du Bois’s engagements with the thought of Edward Wilmot Blyden, Alexander Crummell and Frederick Douglass and argues that the intended point of the essay was “to give hope to blacks at a time when scientists were questioning their future on the basis of suspicions about the impact of race mixing on their capacity
Anna Julia Cooper - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy In the early African American philosophical canon, activist-intellectuals like Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Alain Locke, and W E B Du Bois tend to be the more readily recognized philosophical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States than Anna Julia Cooper and other Black women scholars and
Feminist Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy In the pivotal year of 1848, Frederick Douglass insisted that “all that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman” (quoted in Davis 1981, 51)