Introduction: political thought in the shadow of Douglass / Neil Roberts
Slavery, freedom, agency. Masters, mistresses, slaves, and the antinomies of modernity / Paul Gilroy
The fight with Covey / Bernard R. Boxill
Frederick Douglass's master-slave dialectic / Margaret Kohn
Lectures on liberation / Angela Y. Davis
Douglass's declarations of independence and practices of politics / Robert Gooding-Williams
Judgment, intersectionality, human nature. Douglass and political judgment: the post-Reconstruction years / Jack Turner
Black masculinity achieves nothing without restorative care: an intersectional rearticulation of Frederick Douglass / Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro
"The human heart is a seat of constant war": Frederick Douglass on human nature / Nicholas Buccola
Seed-time and harvest-time: natural law and rational hopefulness in Frederick Douglass's life and times / Peter C. Myers
The affect of God's law / Vincent Lloyd
Law-breaker: Frederick Douglass and the rule of law / Anne Norton
Rhetoric, citizenship, democracy. Frederick Douglass / Herbert J. Storing
Staging dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the people" / Jason Frank
"A blending of opposite qualities": Frederick Douglass and the demands of democratic citizenship / Nick Bromell.