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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Southern Quarterly
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April 1, 2008
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Arthur Riss. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 238pp. Cloth: $85.00, ISBN 0-521-85674-4.)
In his 1854 address, "The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered," Frederick Douglass confronted the scientific arguments promulgated by the American School of Ethnography and others for essential Negro inferiority and therefore the continuation of slavery. Douglass argued, "Men instinctively distinguish between men and brutes. Common sense itself is scarcely needed to detect the absence of manhood in a monkey, or to recognize its presence in a negro."1 Although Douglass may have seen the abolitionist cause ...
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