Mar 21, 2012 | FiveThirtyEight
Opinionator | Disunion: Mr. Phillips Goes to Washington
As his train pulled into Washington in March 1862, Wendell Phillips, the man known as "abolition's golden trumpet," caught sight of "one of those unfinished round buildings used to turn locomotives in," and asked his seatmate "what that engine house was." Already famous across the country as a leading abolitionist orator, Phillips had left his ... (more)
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