Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Lessons of Repeated Experience
1. The Sedition of Nonresistance
2. Garrisonism and the Public Sphere
3. Frederick Douglass's Public Body
4. Faneuil Hall: The Civic Institution of the Imaginary
5. Thoreau's Civic Imagination
6. Douglass's Sublime: The Art of the Slave
Conclusion: A Cosmopolitan Point of View
Notes
Index