Thoughts on Fredrick Douglass from Giants: The Parallel Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass by John Stauffer

01-13-26

We're leaving Rochester and moving to Haiti! And the election of Abraham Lincoln caused it!

NYE party celebrating the Proclamation, be there or be square;

Ottillie Assing seeing herself as the heroine of a book, kind of a parasocial relationship;

"she knew how attractive and eloquent he was"