BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 1st July, 1889, the Republican President Benjamin Harrison, soon after he took up residence in the White House appointed Frederick Douglass as the next U.S. Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti. Born into slavery in 1818 on the eastern shores of Maryland, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was the […]
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