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This article appears in the\u00a0August 2026 issue of<\/em>\u00a0The American Prospect magazine.<\/em> If you\u2019d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here.<\/em><\/p>\n

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America is suffering a crisis of faith. The president, rapidly losing control of his faculties, is leading a coterie of degenerate cronies, literal malefactors of great wealth, who are destroying whole wings of the White House when they\u2019re not gorging themselves on the public treasury with corrupt contracts and giveaways.<\/p>\n

Many Americans, particularly in elite circles, seem stunned and bewildered. The worst people in the country are in power, again, and laying waste to everything. Every week, Trump does something an order of magnitude worse than Watergate, and it\u2019s a two-day story at most. It\u2019s hard to muster the energy to care about so many scandals.<\/p>\n

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I frankly share the stunned feeling, sometimes. Is a nation stupid enough to elect Donald Trump twice<\/em> worth saving? Maybe the American people deserve to get what they voted for, good and hard.<\/p>\n

At those times, I think about Frederick Douglass. There was someone who had a mountain of reasons to give up entirely on the United States. Instead, he poured out a lifetime of grueling effort to end slavery and secure civil rights for African Americans. He lived long enoughto see slavery ended, but also to see the resurgence of white supremacy that violently destroyed the brief Reconstruction experiment with multiracial democracy in the South. Yet even with so much of his life\u2019s work in ruins, he never gave up on America or freedom. So how can we?<\/p>\n

DOUGLASS\u2019S LIFE STORY SEEMS<\/strong> designed to embody all the contradictions and possibilities of 19th-century America. Born not just a slave, but a mixed-race slave likely fathered by one of his enslavers or one of his enslaver\u2019s sons, he was the product of arguably the single most appalling feature of antebellum slavery: the widespread habit among male Southern slave owners of raping their female slaves and then enslaving their own resulting children.<\/p>\n

He successfully escaped bondage from eastern Maryland in 1838, at age 20. After a few years working odd jobs, he was discovered by the abolitionist movement. The discovery of Douglass\u2019s immense oratorical talent was instantly appealing to abolitionist organizers for obvious reasons. He would prove that a Black person can succeed at the highest level, even if he were a result of the dreaded race-mixing, without any formal education, inherited wealth, or powerful family connections. Nobody has ever come closer to the impossible idea of lifting himself by his own bootstraps.<\/p>\n

Abolitionists like Douglass toured the northern United States tirelessly, speaking at thousands of abolitionist rallies. This was a dangerous business even in New England, and he was repeatedly the victim of discrimination, heckling, threats, and assaults. One particularly violent brawl left him with a permanently disfigured right hand.<\/p>\n

Eventually, he wrote an autobiography, which became an instant classic, and went on extensive international tours. By the mid-1850s, he was a world-famous speaker, writer, journalist, newspaper editor, and all-around celebrity. He ended up being the most-photographed American of the 19th century, and certainly the most important civil rights activist in the world.<\/p>\n

In a sense, he was the 19th century\u2019s version of an influencer\u2014except instead of producing short-form video optimized to catch the attention of \u201cmasses\u201d of individuals scrolling on their phones, Douglass brought the show to the actual masses, day after day, for decades. Through years of practice, he honed his routine and technique to a mirror finish; a reliable crowd-pleaser was his bitterly sarcastic \u201cSlaveholder\u2019s Sermon,\u201d in which he parodied the sanctimonious hypocrisy of Southern Christianity.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, consider the wonderful goodness of God! Look at your hard, horny hands, your strong muscular frames, and see how mercifully he has adapted you to the duties you are to ful\ufb01ll!\u201d Douglass had the pastor say to his slaves. \u201cWhile to your masters, who have slender frames and long delicate \ufb01ngers, he has given brilliant intellects, that they may do the thinking<\/em>, while you do the working<\/em>\u201d (emphasis in original).<\/p>\n

From a modern standpoint, it is almost unbelievable that Douglass could get huge crowds of people, most of whom did not have even a high school education, to pay rapt attention to flowery, hours-long speeches, often full of learned citations and elaborate arguments. But they kept coming back for more. There may be something to the idea that television and cellphones have ruined the national attention span; professor friends of mine relate that if they assign any Douglass speech, it must be heavily abridged or students simply will not read it.<\/p>\n

DOUGLASS\u2019S FIRST MENTOR<\/strong> was William Lloyd Garrison, one of the classic American-style utopian idealists, disgusted by the grubby realities of politics. Garrisonians hated political parties, lambasted the Constitution as a pro-slavery document, advocated pure \u201cmoral suasion,\u201d and, as so often with political radicals, were highly prone to sectarian infighting.<\/p>\n

After a few years, Douglass came to understand that such a na\u00efve, hyper-moralistic approach\u2014Garrison argued that government itself was essentially always wrong\u2014could never abolish slavery. Abolitionists would have to descend into the political muck and get dirty grappling for power.<\/p>\n

Navigating the pitfalls of politics without losing sight of one\u2019s moral principles is always the most difficult part of radicalism, and Douglass managed it with rare dexterity. After having briefly fled the country for fear of prosecution over his involvement with John Brown, Douglass debated the British abolitionist George Thompson in 1860 about whether the Constitution was pro- or anti-slavery. Douglass made the latter case, and while the argument was sophisticated and clever, it was also a little tendentious.<\/p>\n

He argued, for instance, that the infamous three-fifths clause was a \u201cdownright disability\u201d because it \u201cdeprives those States of two-fifths of their natural basis of representation \u2026 Therefore, instead of encouraging slavery, the Constitution encourages freedom by giving an increase of \u2018two-fifths\u2019 of political power to free over slave States.\u201d Mathematically correct, but something of an evasion of how the clause gave extra political power to slave owners in proportion to how many people they owned, and quite obviously done to enlist reverence for the Constitution and the cult of the Founding Fathers on behalf of abolition.<\/p>\n

If the argument was something of a cynical expedient in 1860, it became an open-and-shut case when the Radical Republicans added the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. That\u2019s one way to win a debate about constitutional law.<\/p>\n

Though he never quite reached the heights of national power, Douglass was not some bit player amid the enormous tumult of the Civil War. When fighting began, Black men were not allowed in the United States military, which Douglass attacked as unjust and counterproductive. \u201cThis is no time to fight only with your white hand, and allow your black hand to remain tied,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n

When this ban was removed, thanks partly to his own influence, Douglass became a tireless military recruiter, and two of his own sons enlisted. He quickly stopped, however, when it became clear that Black troops were being abused, paid much less, denied promotions, and, worst of all, denied prisoner-of-war protections, making it more likely for them to be murdered by racist Confederate forces after capture.<\/p>\n

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Douglass met with President Lincoln in the White House and argued once more that this racist treatment was immoral and holding back the war effort. Lincoln took the complaints seriously, some rules were removed, and Douglass returned to recruiting, though the personal military position he thought was coming never arrived.<\/p>\n

Historians have argued that the Civil War was a fairly close-run thing in 1864. Union losses were appalling during the Overland Campaign, as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant went on a sustained, grueling offensive to force the Confederacy into submission and end the war quickly. The resulting carnage and repeated setbacks were extremely unpopular, and Lincoln assumed that unless the tide turned quickly, he was going to lose the election that November. He even met with Douglass to plan a possible effort to covertly free the remaining slaves in the South, should the election be lost.<\/p>\n

But by this time, there were roughly 200,000 Black men in the United States military, about 10 percent of the total. Without this influx of new recruits, many of whom fought and died in the bloodiest battles of 1864, Grant\u2019s harrying of Lee might have dragged on a critical few months, leading Lincoln to lose the election to would-be Confederate appeaser George B. McClellan. In short, it is entirely possible that without Douglass\u2019s actions to enable and then bolster Black enlistment, the Confederacy would have won its independence.<\/p>\n

When African Americans from around the country consecrated a statue of Lincoln in 1876 (known as the Emancipation Statue, it can still be seen in Washington, D.C., today), Douglass delivered a famous oration to practically the entire national political establishment, from President Grant to the Supreme Court to congressional leaders. (As biographer David W. Blight notes, no Black person would do this again until Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009.)<\/p>\n

There, Douglass delivered a considered political verdict on Lincoln\u2019s legacy. He stated forthrightly that Lincoln \u201cwas preeminently the white man\u2019s President, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men,\u201d and that African Americans \u201care at best only his step-children; children by adoption, children by forces of circumstances and necessity.\u201d Still, \u201cwe were able to take a comprehensive view \u2026 and to make reasonable allowance for the circumstances of his position \u2026 we came to the conclusion that the hour and the man of our redemption had somehow met in the person of Abraham Lincoln.\u201d<\/p>\n

Douglass pointed out that even Lincoln\u2019s prejudice was a necessary precondition for his political success. \u201cViewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.\u201d Few have delivered a better summary of how to ride the edge of the politically possible.<\/p>\n

DOUGLASS\u2019S MOST MARKED CHARACTERISTIC<\/strong> was his astounding capacity for empathy. Brilliant minds are not uncommon. Much rarer is the genius with a sound moral sense\u2014one which persists even when that person has suffered terrible injustice. Someone with Douglass\u2019s background would have had every right to cultivate a bilious resentment against white people. But a repeated theme in his anti-slavery work was how the institution gravely harmed everyone, regardless of race.<\/p>\n

This extended even to his unknown father. \u201cCruel as the deed may strike any one to be, for a man to sell his own children to human flesh-mongers, it is often the dictate of humanity for him to do so,\u201d Douglass wrote in his first autobiography. \u201cUnless he does this, he must not only whip them himself, but must stand by and see one white son tie up his brother, of but few shades darker complexion than himself, and ply the gory lash to his naked back; and if he lisp one word of disapproval, it is set down to his parental partiality, and only makes a bad matter worse, both for himself and the slave whom he would protect and defend.\u201d<\/p>\n

No doubt this was partly rhetorical\u2014by demonstrating insight into the human motivations even of his own brutal enslaver, Douglass demonstrated his own humanity, and his superior virtue to boot\u2014but it was also true.<\/p>\n

Douglass maintained this largeness of spirit throughout his life. He was one of a handful of men\u2014and the only Black person of any gender\u2014at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the first women\u2019s rights conference in American history. There he argued strongly for women\u2019s suffrage against more moderate factions who worried it would discredit the group, and he helped carry the day. He continued to advocate for women\u2019s rights his whole life, even as many white feminists, embittered by the fact that Black men had gotten the vote first, and drawn into the vortex of racism that gradually consumed the post\u2013Civil War North, welcomed segregation and Jim Crow.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet those who want argument examine the ground upon which they base their claim to the right to vote,\u201d Douglass said in an 1888 speech at an International Council of Women conference. \u201cThey will find that there is not one reason, not one consideration, which they can urge in support of man\u2019s claim to vote, which does not equally support the right of woman to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1867, as a xenophobic anti-Chinese panic built up, Douglass argued powerfully that the United States is a \u201ccomposite nation,\u201d and Chinese immigrants should be welcomed and granted all the benefits of citizenship. \u201cThere are such things in the world as human rights,\u201d he said. Later, he strenuously opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.<\/p>\n

Douglass was, of course, far from perfect. He was vain, egotistical, proud, touchy (particularly about racial slights), and treated his first wife quite poorly. He ended up, somewhat by accident, as the patriarch of an enormous family and coterie of hangers-on, and was forced to keep an arduous touring schedule long into his old age to make ends meet. He took over the Freedman\u2019s Savings Bank just a few months before it collapsed, perhaps unwittingly persuading Black depositors to open accounts that were almost immediately wiped out.<\/p>\n

Such flaws were hardly surprising in a man of his time and background. On the contrary, it is surprising that they weren\u2019t much worse. A man who endured such a traumatic upbringing and then found his way into so much privilege could be expected to develop a severe case of megalomania, if not substance abuse. That he did not is certainly partly the result of his own noble character, but I think also because Douglass had a great moral crusade for which to fight. Struggle against injustice can give one\u2019s life a powerful sense of purpose.<\/p>\n

That same purpose exists today, as white supremacists once more have the upper hand. Pete Hegseth is resegregating the military, and the Republican Party is rebuilding a new Jim Crow, enabled by the Supreme Court. Just as in Douglass\u2019s day, the voting rights of Black people in the South are being stolen by force and fraud.<\/p>\n

In 1878, as Reconstruction was being destroyed, Douglass gave a speech remembering what the Civil War was about. \u201cThough freedom of speech and of the ballot have for the present fallen before the shot-guns of the South, and, the party of slavery is now in the ascendant, we need bate no jot of heart or hope,\u201d he said. \u201cThe heart of the nation is still sound and strong, and as in the past, so in the future, patriotic millions, with able captains to lead them, will stand as a wall of fire around the Republic, and in the end see Liberty, Equality, and Justice triumphant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Douglass made such a political prophecy come true in his own time, and we can do the same again.<\/p>\n

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This article appears in Aug 2026 issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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