Acclaimed authors, Professors Lucas Morel and Jonathan W. White, join Lisa Wexler to talk about their groundbreaking book, Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln, which includes newly discovered documents, that brings together for the first time, every substantive comment Frederick Douglass made about Abraham Lincoln.
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Portrait of Frederick Douglass (February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895), a former slave who became an abolitionist and Civil Rights activist, writer, and Suffragist. Douglass, unconsented, was the first African-American nominated for vice president on an Equal Right Party ticket with the first woman running for president. Photograph engraving published in 1895. Original edition is from my own archives. Copyright has expired and is in Public Domain.