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  • Chapter 22 - Environment

  • from Part IV - Philosophy
  • Edited by Michaël Roy
  • Book:
    Frederick Douglass in Context
    Published online:
    16 June 2021
    Print publication:
    08 July 2021, pp 267-278

  • Summary

    As reflected throughout his writing and oratory, the environment figured prominently in Frederick Douglass’s life. Notably, his engagement with the environment extended well beyond its personal impact to its broader place in the lives of all black people in the United States, enslaved and free alike. Drawing on life experience as well as leading eco-political discourse of his day, Douglass’s representation of the environment reveals an underexplored dimension of his calls for black liberation, which preceded and followed the abolition of slavery. Examining the extent to which the biophysical world and black life are entwined in Douglass’s work invites fresh insight into his thinking on a range of subjects, including the more consequential such as slavery and freedom.