Frederick Douglass (eBook)

America's Prophet

D. H. Dilbeck (Autor)

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2018
208 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3619-1 (ISBN)

Infos

From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation of Douglass's life through the lens of his faith. In an era when the role of religion in public life is as contentious as ever, Dilbeck provides essential new perspective on Douglass's place in American history. Douglass came to faith as a teenager among African American Methodists in Baltimore. For the rest of his life, he adhered to a distinctly prophetic Christianity. Imitating the ancient Hebrew prophets and Jesus Christ, Douglass boldly condemned evil and oppression, especially when committed by the powerful. Dilbeck shows how Douglass's prophetic Christianity provided purpose and unity to his wide-ranging work as an author, editor, orator, and reformer. As "e;America's Prophet,"e; Douglass exposed his nation's moral failures and hypocrisies in the hopes of creating a more just society. He admonished his fellow Americans to truly abide by the political and religious ideals they professed to hold most dear. Two hundred years after his birth, Douglass's prophetic voice remains as timely as ever.

Autor

D. H. Dilbeck is a historian from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and author of A More Civil War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionist movement • African American Religion • African Methodist Episcopal Church • American Religion • american slavery • antislavery movement • Antislavery religion • Baltimore and slavery • Black theology • Emancipation • Frederick Douglass • John Brown • Maryland and slavery • prophetic religion • proslavery religion • religion and Jim Crow • religion and Reconstruction • religion and segregation • religion and woman's rights movement • Religion in the American Civil War • religion in the American South • religion of Frederick Douglass • Religious biography • Slavery and the U.S. Constitution • William Lloyd Garrison
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3619-0 / 1469636190
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3619-1 / 9781469636191