Remember a couple of weeks ago when court evangelical Eric Metaxas said Jesus was white? Me too.

Here is Peter Manseau, the curator of religion at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History:

H. Ford Douglas — born into slavery, escaped at 15, barber, speaker, publisher, captain in the Union Army — would’ve had some thoughts on Eric Metaxas saying “Jesus was white.”

(Anti-Slavery Bugle, October 6, 1860) pic.twitter.com/7hGJrZFKfD

— Peter Manseau (@plmanseau) July 28, 2020

Here is more on Hezekiah Ford Douglas.

Browse more issues of the Anti-Slavery Bugle here.