On the work of political imagination animating the latter, Coates writes: “beneath that political conversation about ‘race,’ swirling around it, sometimes directly related, and sometimes tangentially related, are the incredible myths and world-views of black people and the black diaspora at large. Coates has critiqued white illusions like what he calls the “Dream” in Between the World and Me, yet also contributed to the science fiction vision of an advanced black Wakanda in the comic Black Panther: A Nation under Our Feet. and Otter, Samuel ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008) Google Scholar Levine, The Lives of Frederick Douglass.ħ1 In addition to the examples I provide, consider the diverse writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who like Douglass has evaluated white unwillingness and imagined alternatives. 1 ( 1990): 23– 34 CrossRef Google Scholar Sundquist, Eric J., To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993) Google Scholar Sale, Maggie Montesinos, The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997) Google Scholar Stauffer, John, “ Interracial Friendship and the Aesthetics of Freedom,” in Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, ed. Other influential scholarship includes Andrews, William L., “ The Novelization of Voice in Early African American Narrative,” PMLA 105, no. 1 ( 2012): 6–31 CrossRef Google Scholar.ġ3 The first modern work on the story is Stepto, Robert B., “ Storytelling in Early Afro-American Fiction: Frederick Douglass’ ‘The Heroic Slave,’” Georgia Review 36, no. For other political theory that relies particularly on Douglass's “Fourth of July” address and his narrated fight with Edward Covey, see Krause, Sharon R., Liberalism with Honor ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002) Google Scholar Shulman, George M., American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008) CrossRef Google Scholar Frank, Jason A., Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America ( Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010) Google Scholar Turner, Jack, Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012) CrossRef Google Scholar Zerilli, Linda, “ Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment: Farewell to Public Reason,” Political Theory 40, no.

10 Nicholas Buccola provides the most comprehensive overview of Douglass on persuasion or education in The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York: New York University Press, 2012).

The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass