Sense of historical disparity

'Even the great man himself acknowledged the disparity in their recognition.
"I have had the applause of the crowd," Frederick Douglass wrote to fellow abolitionist, escaped slave and Marylander Harriet Ross Tubman. But, he wrote in the 1868 letter, three years after slavery was abolished in the United States, "The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses to your devotion to freedom."
Nearly a century and a half later, Tubman's family descendents say there's still truth - and consequences - to his words.' Read on.