Context is for the weak

[james_davis_nicoll]

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

Somewhere a Fox news editor's history teacher is weeping.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Frederick Douglass was handsome. My. My.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought. DAMN. And, I looked him up, so now I know who he is!

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Agreed - though I have a fondness for that eyebrow thing Lincoln has going on. Spock eyebrow ftw!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

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.