CRS Session: Literacy, Moral and Civic Personhood, and the Racial Contract

On Tuesday 24 September, visiting RICH-Fellow and professor of philosophy Ron Sundstrom (University of San Francisco) invites us to reflect on the role of literacy in Frederick Douglass’s abolitionism, against the background of Mills’s influential concept of the Racial Contract. Douglass’ storyshows how slaves such as himself seized, critiqued, and transformed liberal political ideas for his, his people’s, and universal liberatory purposes.