FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD

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"This innovative book focuses specifically on Douglass's Atlantic encounters, literal and literary, against the backdrop of slavery, emancipation, and western colonial process. Sweeney considers the effect of extraterritorial sites - for example Ireland, Haiti and Egypt - on Douglass's writing, self-construction, national, class and racial identity, and status as representative US American man."--Jacket.