In late July, 1863, in the middle of told me about you."' the Civil War, an imposing man The president's visitor was, of course, with stern features arrived at the Frederick Douglass, the editor of a re-White House hoping to meet Abra- spected abolitionist newspaper, a man in- ham Lincoln. Describing their in- ternationally famous for his oratorical terview later, he declared that, powers and anti-slavery activities. A self-though he was the "only dark spot" in the- taught former...