Critic and author William Dean Howells writing in 1901 says both Frederick Douglass and Booker T. were great, if different, men. BTW's temper was conservative whereas Douglass's was militant. BTW led by "mild might." Douglass was a "fighter." These images create a great deal of historical complexity into typologies of leadership. Both great, just different in means and temperament.
-David Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, P. 714
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I read one of Douglass' biographies. Didn't know he was "militant."
I think that's just a word choice on the part of Blight. I wouldn't make too much of it.
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