![]() ![]() ![]() President Trump recently described Frederick Douglass as "an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice." The president's muddled tense – it came out sounding as if the 19th-century abolitionist were alive with a galloping Twitter following – provoked some mirth on social media. He made sure to document his life in not one but three autobiographies. Douglass was acutely conscious of being a literary witness to the inhumane institution of slavery he had escaped as a young man. American writer, abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass edits a journal at his desk, late 1870s. ![]()
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