Reason, Imagination, and Sentiment: Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Textualism as Black Natural Law and Political Activism
Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
Published online on March 16, 2026
Abstract
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Frederick Douglass’s constitutional textualism can be interpreted from within the Black Natural Law Tradition (BNLT) in two ways. First, the BNLT has a more complex anthropology than the Classical Natural Law Tradition (CNLT), and it is in and through ...
Frederick Douglass’s constitutional textualism can be interpreted from within the Black Natural Law Tradition (BNLT) in two ways. First, the BNLT has a more complex anthropology than the Classical Natural Law Tradition (CNLT), and it is in and through ...