The Powers of DignityIn The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had elaborated a political philosophy from his own slave experience. Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti Black racism. To remedy this deficiency, Douglass deployed insights from his distinctively