Book contents
- Frederick Douglass in Context
- Frederick Douglass in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Part II Genres
- Part III Activism
- Part IV Philosophy
- Chapter 17 Politics
- Chapter 18 Law
- Chapter 19 Education
- Chapter 20 Religion
- Chapter 21 Science and Technology
- Chapter 22 Environment
- Part V Networks
- Part VI Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 20 - Religion
from Part IV - Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2021
- Frederick Douglass in Context
- Frederick Douglass in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Part II Genres
- Part III Activism
- Part IV Philosophy
- Chapter 17 Politics
- Chapter 18 Law
- Chapter 19 Education
- Chapter 20 Religion
- Chapter 21 Science and Technology
- Chapter 22 Environment
- Part V Networks
- Part VI Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
While Frederick Douglass’s fame as an ex-slave and man of letters is widely known over two continents, Europe and North America, his career as an evangelistic orator outside of the United States is far less familiar to Douglass scholars. With attention turned toward a religious consideration of Douglass’s career as local preacher, then international abolitionist in the revivalist tradition, this article connects Douglass to a specifically black form of prophetic performance against the Pharisaism of proslavery Christianity in the U.S. South. In increasingly agnostic and humanistic terms, Douglass voiced his antislavery jeremiad against American Christianity in a months-long public performance of revivalistic speech-making in Christian England and Ireland in 1845-47.
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- Frederick Douglass in Context , pp. 244 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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