Frederick Douglass delivered Lincoln reality check at Emancipation Memorial

[Steve Whitlock]

Rather than have a writer, or myself, cherry pick portions of the oration by Frederick Douglass on the occasion of the unveiling of the Freedmen's Memorial Statue, I'll let Mr. Douglass speak for himself in the attached document. It is a speech worth pondering, and unfortunate for the drop out, me, that I never read it before.