The Lion of Anacostia and the Prince of Preachers

On July 6, 1887, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass sat down to write a letter to one of the most famous men in Great Britain. “Dear Mr. Spurgeon,” he wrote. While crossing the Atlantic, last September, and looking out upon its proud dashing billows and their varied forms, and thinking of the diversity in the [...] The post The Lion of Anacostia and the Prince of Preachers first appeared on…