Frederick Douglass Editorial Regarding R. E. Lee's Death

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During January 1870 Frederick Douglass began publishing his latest newspaper the New National Era out of Uniontown in Washington D. C. On November 10, 1870, Douglass published the following editorial titled "Bombast," critical of the adulation of being heaped on Robert E. Lee as a result of his recent death.

New National Era Newspaper, November 10, 1870

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