/news/2018/02/23/op-ed-douglass-leadership-still-applicable-in-21st-century/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:33:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 /news/2018/02/23/op-ed-douglass-leadership-still-applicable-in-21st-century/#comment-950270 Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:33:19 +0000 /?p=172597#comment-950270 It is not the case that Frederick Douglass withheld support from John Brown because he believed “an attack on federal property would alienate wider support for emancipation.” Both at the time and in retrospect, Douglass only disagreed with Brown’s strategy because he did not believe it was tactically safe and believed he would be caught in a trap of his own making by seizing the federal armory. Douglass long supported Brown’s overall plan to invade the South and lead off enslaved people into the mountains. He continued to support that plan, and despite Brown’s choice to invade Harper’s Ferry, Douglass still introduced a man to join Brown’s band of men.

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