One hundred and fifty years ago, on April 14, 1876, at the dedication of the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., and at a delicate moment of possibility for a nation in dire need of healing in the aftermath of the savageries of our Civil War, Frederick Douglass spoke eloquently but with unequivocal clarity about the complexity of the man who led the nation through that war as our president; a man martyred and fervently revered to this day for the moral courage he ultimately accessed from the depths of … (read more)
