In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass\'s 1867 claim that he had "elaborated a Political philosophy" from his own "slave experience." Bromell shows that Douglass devised his Philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans\' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti-Black racism.
To remedy this deficiency, Douglass deployed insights from his distinctively Black experience.
In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass\'s 1867 claim that he had "elaborated a Political philosophy" from his own "slave experience." Bromell shows that Douglass devised his Philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans\' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti-Black racism