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Joining author in conversation is margaret sullivan, columnist at the washington post. In the decades before the civil war, Frederick Douglass emerged as the foremost orator and writer for the abolition movement. Abraham lincoln said of douglass, there is no man in the country whose opinion i value more than yours. And that lincoln second inauguration douglass sat near the president. How came to be on the side of the president is a story told in the color of abolition. Our featured book for todays program. Linda hirshman describes how the team of Douglas William garrison and Maria Weston Chapman successfully promoted the antislavery cause in the 1840s. By the early 1850s, however, douglass joined with those who actively engaged in politics to achieve abolition and rejected the nonpolitical means espoused by ga ....

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