In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass maintained that enslaved Black Americans were already American citizens. Through a systematic analysis of his political writings from the 1840s through th...More info...
Seizing Citizenship offers a philosophical analysis of Frederick Douglasss declaration, in the lead up to the U.S. Civil War, that enslaved Black Americans were already American citizens. Philip Yaures analysis, which draws upon Douglasss...More info...
