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Someone's property.(Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism)(Book review)

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From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20080801
Author:McKenna, George

FREDERICK DOUGLASS: RACE AND THE REBIRTH OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM

by PETER C. MYERS

University Press of Kansas, 265 pages, $34.95

AS PREDICTABLY AS THE calendar pages turn, each time I taught American political thought, whenever we got to the Declaration of Independence, some student would report breathlessly that the author of such phrases as "unalienable rights" and "all men are created equal" kept slaves. The moral: "These are fine ideals, Professor, but we haven't practiced them very well, have we?"

My response was to thank the student for the reminder. Yes, ...

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