On land where ‘lives were once traded,’ black history museum rises on National Mall

February 23, 2012


WASHINGTON – Frederick Douglass was black and that was enough for the Smithsonian Institution to bar the famed abolitionist from speaking at a lecture series intended to convince President Abraham Lincoln that he should end slavery as war divided the nation in February 1862.


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