Nick BromellNICK BROMELL is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of By the Sweat of the Brow: Labor and Literature in Antebellum America and The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation o U.S. Democracy. His articles and essays on Frederick Douglass and African American political thought have appeared in American Literary History, The American Scholar, and Political Theory. Read More Read Less