`As to nation, I belong to none': Ambivalence, diaspora, and Frederick Douglass.
Discusses the development by African American ex-slave Frederick Douglass of a theory of nationalism that rejects the concepts of homogeneity and unity as standards for America. Reluctance of Douglass to call America home; Effect of the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 on Douglass.
| Published in: | ATQ Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 245 - 261 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Rhode Island
Sep95
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