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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2008-05-01 03:34 pm
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Context is for the weak

Even I know the difference between Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass.

Somewhere a Fox news editor's history teacher is weeping.
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[identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com 2008-05-01 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Frederick Douglass was handsome. My. My.

[identity profile] winterknight.livejournal.com 2008-05-01 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That was my first thought. DAMN. And, I looked him up, so now I know who he is!

[identity profile] elynne.livejournal.com 2008-05-02 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Agreed - though I have a fondness for that eyebrow thing Lincoln has going on. Spock eyebrow ftw!

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2008-05-02 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
I am convinced that that is one of the reasons he was so THREATENING to the anti-abolitionists. The whole narrative of "Dem Black Men Gonna Come And Have Sex Wit' Our White Wimmins" thing was a deep fear, I think, and Fredrick Douglass was threatening since, well, you gotta figure that there were quite a few White Wimmins who might not have objected.

He was also, of course, smart, well-educated, well-spoken, a witty conversationalist, and passionate.
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