It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party. To mark the start of last year’s African American ...

Maurice S. Lee
Maurice S. Lee is chair and professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860 (2005) and Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2012) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (2009).