Robert S. Levine

Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity

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 history--while 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.

Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Art of Persuasion

ABSTRACT Frederick Douglass was a master rhetorician who regularly told stories about his life history. Those stories changed, depending on the rhetorical occasion. This article examines his various accounts of Abraham Lincoln over an approximately 30-year period. At times Douglass presents Lincoln as the Great Emancipator; at other times he presents him as a racist. Douglass is interested less in documenting the historical truth about Lincoln than in using him to make arguments for racial justice.

Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

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