Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity

Robert Steven Levine

Univ of North Carolina Press, 1997 - History - 314 pages

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 Afric

About the author

Robert S. Levine is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville and editor of a forthcoming collection of Martin Delany's writings.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity, Robert Steven Levine
• Author: Robert Steven Levine
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0807846333, 9780807846339
• Length: 314 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / 19th Century; Literary Criticism / American / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies