https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/issue/feedNew North Star: A Journal of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass2024-02-02T14:26:20-05:00Jack Kaufman-McKiviganjmckivig@iupui.eduOpen Journal Systems<p><em>New North Star: A Journal of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass</em> is a peer-reviewed, semi-annual, open-access online journal, published by the <em>Institute for American Thought</em>. The journal features new scholarship on the activities and ideas of the nineteenth century African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the world with which he interacted.</p>https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/article/view/28028Frederick Douglass in the British Isles (1845–1847): A Reassessment of Approach, Achievement, and Legacy2024-02-02T09:29:56-05:00Stuart Anderson-Davis<p>Frederick Douglass’s first tour of the British Isles (1845–1847) proved a pivotal episode in the life of the legendary campaigner and the broader fight against slavery. Douglass made over three-hundred speaking appearances during his nineteen-month stay—sparking public debate, generating hundreds of newspaper articles, and reinvigorating an antislavery movement that had largely stalled in Britain since the 1830s. Douglass’s campaigning revealed early glimpses of his rhetorical skills and political instincts, including his successful navigation of the “white slavery” controversy and an impressive publicity blitz on the nation’s newspapers. However, Douglass’s time in Britain was not an unmitigated success. This paper examines the limitations of his work—including the failure to successfully pressurize the Free Church of Scotland into returning donations linked to slavery, and the strategic decisions that limited Douglass’s ability to deliver tangible results. In so doing, the paper attempts a more nuanced and dispassionate assessment of Douglass’s tour—evaluating his visit as a political campaign (not an oratory showcase) with successes and failures that shaped the most influential Black American of the nineteenth century.</p>2024-02-02T00:00:00-05:00Copyright (c) 2024 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/article/view/28029Revisiting Frederick Douglass and the Nineteenth Century Religious Imagination2024-02-02T11:26:31-05:00Joseph L. Tucker EdmondsJohn R. McKivigan2024-02-02T00:00:00-05:00Copyright (c) 2024 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/article/view/28036'That Strange, Mysterious, Indescribable': The Powers of Soul in Frederick Douglass’s Political Philosophy2024-02-02T14:26:20-05:00Nick Bromell2024-02-02T00:00:00-05:00Copyright (c) 2024 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/article/view/28031Frederick Douglass: Fostering Psycho-Spiritual Resources for Resilience, Resistance, and Healing in the Age of Terror2024-02-02T11:32:30-05:00Danjuma Gibson2024-02-02T00:00:00-05:00Copyright (c) 2024 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/article/view/28032Numinous Encounters in Frederick Douglass's Autobiographies2024-02-02T11:34:52-05:00Heather L. Kaufman2024-02-02T00:00:00-05:00Copyright (c) 2024 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/article/view/28034‘I Bow to No Priest Either of Faith or Unfaith’: Frederick Douglass’s Afro-Agnosticism2024-02-02T12:02:01-05:00Maurice Wallace2024-02-02T00:00:00-05:00Copyright (c) 2024 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/NNS/article/view/28035Frederick Douglass, Slum Landlord?2024-02-02T12:03:44-05:00John R. McKiviganJeffery A. Duvall2024-02-02T00:00:00-05:00Copyright (c) 2024