Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass’s ambassadorship to #Haiti was widely seen as calamitous, and the government tried to lay the blame at his feet. But his own account exposes instead the fraught negotiations faced by Black folk who served the cause of U.S. imperialism: https://t.co/auexgIjFGr

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Frederick Douglass’s ambassadorship to #Haiti was widely seen as calamitous, and the government tried to lay the blame at his feet. But his own account exposes instead the fraught negotiations faced by Black folk who served the cause of U.S. imperialism: https://t.co/auexgIjFGr

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