Frederick Douglass: New Tea Party hero?! - The right is now holding abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a symbol of self-reliance and need for small government
Wednesday, July 3, 2013 - 10:32
in Mathematics & Economics
Last week, Frederick Douglass — who escaped slavery at 20 years old and whose words would help bring an end to the institution — was honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall in Washington, D.C. In the 1960s and ’70s, far l …