The Many Experiences of Being Black in the Wider World
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 19, 2023
I was particularly struck by the chapter about Black Dominican leader Gregorio Luperón and Frederick Douglass, the American antislavery activist. Douglass went to the Dominican Republic in 1870 at the behest of President Ulysses Grant to investigate if the U.S. should annex the country, as some in Congress were promoting, and was sympathetic to the idea. They both have experienced racist oppression and are godfathers of the same young Dominican-American woman. But they have very different ideas on how to right the wrongs they see.
These two men . . .
