Pausing to Recall Someone We Should. And What Sometimes is Called For

A friend Jacqui Williams wrote me when she saw I was posting about Douglass but as she was on the road couldn’t see what the text was, noted, “I was struck at the title and hope what you shared credits his mother for instilling the desire for freedom, the free blacks of Baltimore who invited him to vigilance meetings and the friendship which grew into love of Anna Murray. She invested her 9 years of savings to purchasing what was needed for Frederick to get the papers and clothing of a free seaman plus outfit their first home. David Ruggles and others in NY and Massachusetts helped the Douglasses in the early years of his escape.”

Here’s a children’s version… 

But we need him. And how he called for justice…

Words that need to be recalled, and actions that flowed as blood. A price that had to be paid…

And we should never forget the price.

The price…