Frederick Douglass Part 2: What Did Frederick Douglas Say to Abraham Lincoln Once the Confederates Committed to Executing all Captured Black Soldiers?

In Part 2 of the 1889 phone conversation with Frederick Douglass, he’ll clear a few things up for us.

If all people are in fact equal, why did he agree to drop women from the ballot after fighting for the right to vote for all?

Why did he decline to join revolutionary abolitionist John Brown on his raid that would have collected 100,000 guns and armed the black man to fight back?

And finally, who had the bigger tasks in their time: George Washington or Abraham Lincoln? 

Throughout our conversation I was amazed at how Douglass knew when violence was appropriate, and when it needed to be avoided or postponed to a better time. Few have accomplished so much in one lifetime with so little to work with. 

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