hen Frederick Douglass met with Abraham Lincoln in August 1863, he asked the president to “retaliate in kind and degree without delay upon Confederate prisoners in his hands” if Confederate authorities carried out their threat to kill or enslave Black Union soldiers captured on the battlefield. Lincoln demurred; he didn’t feel it just to punish
EYE FOR EYE
Apr 26, 2022
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