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Restoring Dignity; Restoration of Frederick Douglass Home Keeps Faith With His Values

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20050813
Author:Lynne Duke

In 1894, Frederick Douglass wrote a speech about freedom's strange fruit, the bodies strung up by lynch mobs. He was, by then, the white-haired lion of the old abolition movement, the escaped slave turned national icon who had lived to see emancipation but also its backlash.

He penned his anti-lynching speech -- his last, it turned out - - at his Anacostia home, Cedar Hill, while seated at the roll-top oak desk in his library.

There seemed an intellectual idyll to Cedar Hill, so high on a hill that Douglass could look down on the Anacostia River and to the Capitol beyond. Douglass ...

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