Seizing Citizenship - Frederick Douglass''s Abolitionist Republicanism

Summary

Seizing Citizenship offers a philosophical analysis of Frederick Douglass's declaration, in the lead up to the U.S. Civil War, that enslaved Black Americans were already American citizens. Philip Yaure's analysis, which draws upon Douglass's autobiographies, speeches, journalism, and correspondence, demonstrates that Douglass based this declaration of Black Americans' citizenship on a radical rethinking of republican political philosophy. Douglass, in contrast to other republican philosophers, thought of republican politics as one in which we make ourselves citizens of a polity by deepening, rather than trying to overcome, our vulnerability to one another.

Product details

• Authors: Yaure , Philip Yaure, Philip (Assistant Professor of Philosophy Yaure
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9780197776728
• ISBN: 978-0-19-777672-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Biography: historical, political & military, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, social and political philosophy, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Biography: historical, political and military, Civics and citizenship, Slavery and abolition of slavery