-- By Frederick Douglass --

Eleven years after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass delivered this speech at the unveiling of the first Lincoln Memorial statue in Washington D.C. (The famous Lincoln Memorial Building was later constructed between 1914 and 1922.

150 years later this oration helps give a lens into the true contemporary view of President Lincoln, an insight that does not exaggerate or brush over the faults of the former President.