"Ironic tenacity" : Frederick Douglass's seizure of the dialectic / Sterling Stuckey - - From Wheatley to Douglass : the politics of displacement / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - - Writing freely? : Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing / Wilson J. Moses - - Faith, doubt, and apostasy : evidence of things unseen in Frederick Douglass's Narrative / Donald B. Gibson - - Franklinian Douglass : the Afro-American as representative man / Rafia Zafar - - Reading slavery : the anxiety of ethnicity in Douglass's Narrative / David Van Leer - - The punishment of Esther : Frederick Douglass and the construction of the feminine / Jenny Franchot - - Race, violence, and manhood : the masculine ideal in Frederick Douglass's "The heroic slave" / Richard Yarborough. "We hold these truths to be self-evident" : the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's journalism / Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Carla L. Peterson - - The Frederick Douglass-Gerrit Smith friendship and political abolitionism in the 1850s / John R. McKivigan - - The shadow of slavery : Frederick Douglass, the savage South, and the next generation / Wayne Mixon - - Frederick Douglass's Life and times : progressive rhetoric and the problem of constituency / Kenneth W. Warren - - Images of Frederick Douglass in the Afro-American mind : the recent Black freedom struggle / Waldo E. Martin, Jr.