Discovery of Frederick Douglass letter sheds light on contested Lincoln statue

Amid protests, some want removal of Washington statue which shows president standing over a man who has broken his chainsAn argument between history professors over a statue which many protesters say should be removed from Lincoln Park in Washington led to the discovery of a letter in which Frederick Douglass described his feelings about it.“The negro here, though rising, is still on his knees and nude,” the civil rights campaigner wrote to the National Republican newspaper in 1876,