“For an accomplished race-baiter like Stephen Douglas, there was no more effective weapon than linking his opponent [Lincoln] with the name of Frederick Douglass.” [The Radical and The Republican by James Oakes]pic.twitter.com/TpMIDmUumw
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“For an accomplished race-baiter like Stephen Douglas, there was no more effective weapon than linking his opponent [Lincoln] with the name of Frederick Douglass.” [The Radical and The Republican by James Oakes]pic.twitter.com/TpMIDmUumw
Lincoln’s speech “has as dark a hue as that of Garrison or Fred Douglass.” “Frederick Douglass. It was enough for the Reigeter to print the name with no further identification.”pic.twitter.com/rEawfjAaRS
“Many of the senator’s listeners in 1858 therefore had no trouble believing that there was some connection between Lincoln and Douglass. Not because it was true, but because it might as well have been true.”pic.twitter.com/DJ49SnVYmS
“What difference was there, he wondered, between a politician whose platform was based on his hatred of slavery and a radical reformer who devoted himself to slavey’s abolition?”pic.twitter.com/ktqnIpgzre
They are not Frederick Douglass in any way.
It's the same reason in 1988 George H W Bush tied Jesse Jackson to Dukakis, mentioning their names together often. Bill Clinton likewise a racist, invoked Jesse Jackson frequently as well, to signal to racist white voters he would be tough on black people.
Frederick Douglass is just beginning to recover from that with his recent great work.
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