The archive of fear: white crisis and Black freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois

Introduction: When Hegel falls silent

1. Crisis and rehearsal in Frederick Douglass: The archive of the interrupted lecture

Interlude: moving things

2. Who's afraid of Virginia's Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the terror of things

3. "More than lynched" : Du Bois, John Brown, and the black reconstruction of democracy

Postlude: Reconstruction in analysis.