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ID097015
Title ProperGood work for our race to-day
Other Title Informationinterests, virtues, and the achievement of justice in Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument Speech
LanguageENG
AuthorMyers, Peter C
Publication2010.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument speech of 1876 is notable for its complexity, and commentators have offered widely varying readings. Critics have judged it an abdication of racial responsibility, indicative of an unwarranted optimism characteristic of Douglass's larger argument on racial reform. In this article, I explicate this speech, highlighting the complex rhetorical design in which Douglass forges a memory of Lincoln as a medium for issuing carefully targeted appeals to the interests and virtues of black and white Americans. In its hitherto underappreciated theoretical dimension, the speech epitomizes a theory of racial progress that challenges recent, pessimistic readings of America's racial history and prospects.
`In' analytical NoteAmerican Political Science Review Vol. 104, No. 2; May 2010: p209-225
Journal SourceAmerican Political Science Review Vol. 104, No. 2; May 2010: p209-225
Key WordsFredrick Douglass ;  Racial Responsibility ;  Racial History ;  Abraham Lincoln ;  America