A mural depicting Frederick Douglass in a chunky wristwatch, a slim-cut suit and crisp white Converse has divided the town of Easton, Md., in his birth county of Talbot.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    In fact, it’s pretty fucking offensive to call the place where he was a captive slave “his own home.”