The Civil War began 150 years ago today, tearing the nation apart, killing over half a million people, and making household names of men and women on both the union and confederate sides of the conflict. Among the most famous of those names: Frederick Douglass. Already a celebrated writer, orator, and abolitionist before the war, […]
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