#APUSH220 Frederick Douglass, who we have talked about in class and read about in "Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" by Stephen B. Oates, was an abolitionist and editor of The North Star who played a crucial role in the Civil War. Douglass and Lincoln had a fluctuating

relationship that depended on Lincoln's differing policies. As a response to Lincoln's proposed colonization efforts, in Douglass' Monthly, he wrote, "though elected as an anti-slavery man by Republican and Abolition voters, Mr. Lincoln is quite a genuine representative of

American prejudice..." However, Douglass glorified Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1865 in which he said Lincoln, "was emphatically the black man’s President: the first to show any respect to their rights as men." @WhiteHouseHstry https://www.whitehousehistory.org/frederick-douglass-and-abraham-lincoln