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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 mans influence on the others political vision. He also examines Delany and Douglasss debates in relation to their own writings and to the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Though each saw himself as the single best representative of his race, Douglass has been accorded that role by historywhile Delany, according to Levine, has suffered a fate typical of the black separatist: marginalization. In restoring Delany to his place in literary and cultural history, Levine makes possible a fuller understanding of the politics of antebellum African American leadership.
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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
author
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Levine, Robert S.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807823236
print isbn13
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9780807823231
ebook isbn13
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9780807862919
language
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English
subject
American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism, African Americans in literature, Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century, Douglass, Frederick,--1817?-1895.--My bondage and my freedom, Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-189
publication date
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1997
lcc
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PS366.A35L48 1997eb
ddc
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818/.30808093520396073
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American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism, African Americans in literature, Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century, Douglass, Frederick,--1817?-1895.--My bondage and my freedom, Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-189
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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
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The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London
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Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
Robert S. Levine
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1997 The University of North Carolina All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953 Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity / Robert S. Levine. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2323-6 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4633-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. American prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Afro-Americans in literature. 3. Politics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th century. 4. Douglass, Frederick, 1817?1895. My bondage and my freedom. 5. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 18111896. Uncle Tom's cabin. 6. United StatesPolitics and government19th century. 7. Delany, Martin Robison, 18121885. Blake. 8. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 18111896. Dred. 9. Group identity in literature. 10. North star (Rochester, N.Y.). 11. Slavery in literature. I. Title. PS366.A35L48 1997 818.30808093520396073dc20 96-9614 CIP
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For Love of Ivy
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction. Representative Men
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1 Western Tour for the North Star: Debating Black Elevation
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2 A Nation within a Nation: Debating Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Emigration
58
3 Slaves of Appetite: Temperate Revolutionism in Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom
99
4 Heap of Witness: The African American Presence in Stowe's Dred
144
5 The Redemption of His Race: Creating Pan-African Community in Delany's Blake
177
Epilogue. True Patriotism/True Stability
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Notes
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Index
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Acknowledgments
I am grateful for the assistance I have received from a number of individuals and institutions. My thanks to George Dekker, Neil Fraistat, and John McWilliams for encouraging me to write this book in the first place, and to Beth Loizeaux, Carla Peterson, and Mary Helen Washington for their sage advice and counsel along the way. For their generous and useful readings of the manuscript, I am grateful to Russ Castronovo, Peter Carafiol, Ivy Goodman, and Wyn Kelley. I am particularly indebted to Jonathan Auerbach and Leonard Cassuto, whose meticulous criticisms of the book's penultimate draft pushed me to write a better book. For their wonderfully helpful advice on final revisions, I am also very much indebted to David W. Blight and John Ernest, my readers at the University of North Carolina Press.
Several research grants facilitated the writing and renewed my energy and confidence. I thank the University of Maryland's General Research Board for a Summer Research Award, and the University's Committee on Africa and Africa in the Americas for a Research and Travel Grant. For a Senior Fellowship for University Teachers, I am indebted to the currently embattled National Endowment for the Humanities. Without the year-long grant from the National Endowment, I fear I would still be struggling to make sense of my project.
I did the bulk of my research at the Library of Congress and am pleased to acknowledge the assistance of its expert staff. I am also grateful to librarians at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and at the University of Maryland's Interlibrary Loan Office.
A portion of Chapter 2, in somewhat different form, first appeared in American Literature 64 (1992), and a considerably shortened version of Chapter 4 first appeared in Criticism and the Color Line, ed. Henry Wonham (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996). My thanks to the editors for the early forum and permission to reprint.
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