In the extreme context of the American slavocracy how do we account for the robust
subjectivity and agency of Frederick Douglass? In an environment of extremity where most
contemporary psychological theory suggests the human spirit would be vanquished how did
Frederick Douglass emerge to become one of the most prolific thinkers of the 19th century? To
address this question this book engages in a psychoanalytic examination of all four of
Frederick Douglass' autobiographies. Danjuma Gibson examines when how and why Douglass tells
his story in the manner he does how his story shifts and takes shape with each successive
autobiography and the resulting psychodynamic pastoral and practical theological
implications.
