… effort trying to recover what he could of his unrecorded slave past. As he wrote in his Narrative (1845), “A want of … Mr. Gough, (SOURCE) who defended Douglass against the “pro-slavery, cadaverous, lantern-jawed Americans (Blassingame, … by his soul-stirring eloquence.” Frederick Douglass to W.L. Garrison, October 28, 1845 [photostat], Frederick Douglass …