[Non-Sequitur]

6. Throughout the film, the name of Frederick Douglass keeps surfacing, again keeping with the theme of the war being exclusively over slavery in the minds of many. Was Douglass anything more than a mere activist or was his impact much more significant?

He was no mere activist. He was a leader of the abolitionist movement, well respected by many Northerners, and an eloquent spokesman for his cause. He was more like a Martin Luther King of his day than an Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.

[Clemenza]

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t he also the first black ambassador to a foreign country (Haiti)?