over. you mentioned how for douglass metaphor or the importance of the word was truly important. i d like to know your opinion so that for us in 2012, what do you think of reference to douglass is biracial supposed to black or african-american or perhaps now with by racial, we could say an african-american american? i suppose he would probably appreciate the double hyphen i suppose in some way. well, first of all, his racial identity was very, very much a part of his public persona everywhere he went, both positive and negative, often very negative depending on the audience. he was constantly fending off in his time the charge that his great intelligence, his abilities with words, et cetera, et cetera, must come from his white pattory moneyny and surely not from his slave mother. it s very interesting how douglass treated this question of race. he got deeply interested in ethanolgraphy. platform krick mentioned jackson s interest in everyonology. whoa, douglass got very